· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| ST JUDE'S | $300 |
| UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SOSON OF A SAINT4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +555%
- TATHE ANGELUS INC4× · 2018–2024 · $49k · revenue +8%
- 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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tesson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tesson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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