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T Semmes Favrot Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE | $1,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MAGNOLIA MOUND | $1,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF THE ORDER OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS (SUGARPLUM BALL) | $600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 86% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MHMEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2022 · $27k · revenue +21%
- TLThe Louisiana Museum Foundation3× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +70%
- FOFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +373%
Funded once
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $3k
- DLDE LA SALLE OF NEW ORLEANS INCone grant, 2018 · $500
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -3%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
The purpose of the organization is to support the financial well being and advancement of the programs and activities of the LSU Museum of Art.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The organizations mission is to preserve the marine, naval, and maritime history of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, including its cultural heritage. We do so by collecting , preserving, analyzing, interpreting, and exhibiting these cultural…
To promote and enhance the historical, cultural, artistic, educational, agricultural, mineral and commercial riches and resources of the City of New Iberia and south Louisiana
To further the interest in the history of pharmacology and promote its further development for the benefit of the general public.
The new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic…
The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Museum Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAGNOLIA MOUND PLANTATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization T Semmes Favrot Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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