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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- SOSON OF A SAINT4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +555%
- TATHE ANGELUS INC4× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +25%
- STSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC3× · 2019–2023 · $45k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- WSWHITEHALL SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $25k
Best Buddies International Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +49%- FOFULL OF GRACE LPC CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
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…
To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.
To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.
To operate and provide support to community social service programs.
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…
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Clover nola educates children, strengthens families, and builds communities.
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.
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 field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
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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