· Private foundation
The Alex Berger 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $8,485 |
| CONGREGATION TEMPLE SINAI | $5,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOC | $3,302 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,900 |
| ANTI DEFIMATION LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE | $2,310 |
| NO JAZZ & HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,025 |
| SHIR CHADASH CONSER CONGREGATION | $1,796 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $1,781 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,018 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NO | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $974 |
| GREATER NO EDUCATION TV FOUND | $850 |
| JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY | $730 |
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 (FY23–23, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $840 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $29k · revenue +44%
- NONew Orleans Ballet Association6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +46%
- INISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF SO JEWISH EXPERIENCEone grant, 2021 · $2k
- NONEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $551 · revenue -37%
- SMST MARY'S ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $350
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.
The Festival's mission is threefold; to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs to nurture, support and showcase regional, national, and international writers, actors, musicians and other artists.
New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…
The mission of new orleans ballet theatre (nobt) is to be the premier resident ballet company of the gulf south internationally renowned for world-class performances, innovative choreography, and outstanding professional training,…
The mission of lyrica baroque is to support a diverse community of students, teachers, artists, institutions and audiences of all ages through education, collaboration and performance. lyrica baroque seeks to promote the extraordinary…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…
The tennessee williams theatre company of new orleans is a year-round professional theatre company committed to producing captivating, exciting, and moving plays with a major focus on the works of america's greatest playwright, tennessee…
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 new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial. Every three years, we bring new art to an old city by inviting artists from all over the world to create projects in a wide variety of venues spread throughout New Orleans.…
How this is measured
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 80 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Ballet Association ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL AND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY STAGE CO ↗
- Who funds KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds Marigny Opera House Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OFF THE FIELD ↗
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 · Goldring Family Foundation · The Perry Ferran St Raymond Foundation · New Orleans Theatre Association Inc · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Helis Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Alex Berger Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alex Berger Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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