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Tesson Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$95k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$697kYouth Development$114kRecreation & Sports$74kHealth$66kReligion$64kFood & Nutrition$24kInternational$20kHuman Services$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
$250
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE STEM LIBRARY$95,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI$25,275
ST MARY'S ACADEMY$20,000
ARCHBISHOP HANNAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,260
THE 18TH WARD$10,000
SECOND HARVEST$5,500
COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS$5,200
Individual grant recipient$5,000
ST PAUL'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$1,000
MERCY HOMES FOR BOYS GIRLS$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$500
BRIDGE HOUSE$500
ST JUDE'S$300
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS$250
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%HARRY THOMPSON CENTER: $3k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $2k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$933k · 29 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
27

Total granted

$933k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-28%

Still filing today

45%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +555%
  • TA
    THE ANGELUS INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +25%
  • ST
    START THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • WS
    WHITEHALL SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • Best Buddies International Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +49%
  • FO
    FULL OF GRACE LPC CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…

Education
2
Easter Seals Louisiana Inc

To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.

3
A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

4
Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans

To operate and provide support to community social service programs.

Human Services
5
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…

Education
6
Isidore Newman School

Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.

Education
7
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

8
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
9
Core Element Greater New Orleans Stem I

To educate and prepare k-12 students in the greater new orleans region in science, technology, engineering and math stem through teacher professional development, inquiry based science and mathematics curricula, and material scholarly…

Education
10
New Orleans Early Education Network

The new orleans early education network (noeen) is working to have a collective impact on the early childhood sector in new orleans by increasing at-risk children's access to quality early care and education and by designing and…

Education
11
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

12
Clover Nola Inc

Clover nola educates children, strengthens families, and builds communities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of St Alphonsus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development CentersFood Pantries & AssistanceChild and Family ServicesSubstance Abuse TreatmentCancer Support OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Independent K-8 SchoolsElementary Literacy Tutoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr16%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr18%18%10–20yr15%6%20–35yr12%41%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
17%
3,577/20,976

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
11/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE STEM LIBRARY — $145,000 · OtherTHE STEM LIBRARYST MARY'S ACADEMY — $85,000 · OtherST MARY'S ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI — $72,675 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPITHE ANGELUS INC — $49,000 · OtherTHE ANGELUS INCSPECIAL OLYMPICS — $48,500 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICSArchbishop Hannan High School — $44,860 · OtherArchbishop Hannan High SchoolGood Sheperd School — $40,000 · OtherSTARC OF LOUISIANA INC — $35,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $30,000 · Other+51 more — $251,300 · Other+51 moreEDUCARE NEW ORLEANS — $60,000 · EducationEDUCARE NE…START THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC — $45,000 · EducationSTART THE …SON OF A SAINT — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $23,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FO…18TH WARD — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $22,500 · Food & NutritionBest Buddies International Inc — $20,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,000 · International+2 more — $300 · InternationalCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $12,200 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $2,500 · Human Services
Other$831,335Education$105,000Youth Development$93,700Recreation & Sports$25,000Food & Nutrition$22,500International$21,300Human Services$14,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEDUCARE NEW ORLEANS — $60,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ANGELUS INC — $49,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC — $45,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetSTARC OF LOUISIANA INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget18TH WARD — $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $23,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUART HALL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $12,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AL COPELAND FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST ALPHONSUS — $600 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 EDUCARE NEW ORLEANS
  • Who funds SON OF A SAINT
  • Who funds THE ANGELUS INC
  • Who funds START THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC
  • Who funds STARC OF LOUISIANA INC
  • Who funds 18TH WARD
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
  • Who funds STUART HALL
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Salmen Family Foundation · James P Raymond Jr Foundation · The Azby Fund · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Patrick F Taylor 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 Tesson Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc4% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Tesson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Tesson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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