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The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
121
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$91k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.7MReligion$1.1MHealth$971kHuman Services$744kArts & Culture$517kHousing & Shelter$381kYouth Development$317kFood & Nutrition$269kOther$0
02FY2025 · 121 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k84 grants · $268k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $532k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jesuit High School$90,500
University of Holy Cross$70,000
Team Rubicon$50,000
Riverside Academy$38,000
St Pius X Church St Vincent de Paul$30,000
Jesuits USA Central & Southern Province$30,000
Raintree Services$27,950
San Antonio Area Fd Camp La Junta$25,000
Ochsner Clinic Foundation$25,000
SBP$20,000
University of Rochester Wilmont Cancer Inst$20,000
International Petroleum Museum & Expo$20,000
Ozanam Inn$20,000
Breakthrough T1D$17,500
Loyola University$16,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Glen Doherty Memorial Foundation: $1k → 10%Neuro Kids: $3k → 6%For Others: $2k → 13%Shephard Home: $500 → 14%Home Start Hope: $500 → 14%Wellspring Alliance for Families: $1k → 24%Life of a Single Mom: $5k → 19%Raintree Services: $28k → 23%Raintree Services: $22k → 23%Hunters for the Hungry: $10k → 19%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Raintree Services: $2k → 23%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Hunters for the Hungry: $5k → 19%Bayou District Foundation: $1k → 23%Raintree Services: $750 → 23%Ellis Marsalis Center for Music: $10k → 23%Ellis Marsalis Center for Music: $10k → 23%Lakeview Shepard Center: $2k → 23%Lakeview Shepard Center: $1k → 23%Lakeview Shepard Center: $250 → 23%NOLA4Women Inc: $5k → 23%NOLA4Women Inc: $5k → 23%NOLA4Women Inc: $5k → 23%Covenant House: $11k → 23%Covenant House: $10k → 23%Harry Thompson Center: $10k → 23%Covenant House New Orleans: $7k → 23%Harry Thompson Center: $2k → 23%Covenant House: $261 → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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OR
IN
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CA
CO
MO
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NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
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FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 186 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

186 repeat relationships: 85 still active in FY2025, 101 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

186
175

Total granted

$7.1M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+15%

Still filing today

42%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $267k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OC
    OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +101%
  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +50%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    7× · 2019–2025 · $177k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • TU
    Tulane University Educational Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • BH
    Boys HopeGirls Hope GNO
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • AO
    Archdiocese of New Orleans
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education
2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
3
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.

Community Improvement
6
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
8
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
9
St James Place of Baton Rouge Foundation

St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.

Housing & Shelter
10
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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11
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization whose mission is to partner with communities, institutions, and individuals to explore louisiana's past, reflect on our present, and imagine our future.

Arts & Culture
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Akula Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

178 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. 178 of the 400 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
170/178
Grantees still filing
127/178
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS: $520,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSSCatholic Charities: $481,750 · OtherCatholic CharitiesJesuit High School: $345,739 · OtherJesuit High SchoolMT CARMEL ACADEMY: $260,066 · OtherSt Pius X Church: $177,200 · Other+138 more: $3,420,960 · Other+138 moreOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $239,500 · HealthOCHSNER CLIN…LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $228,000 · HealthLSU HEALTH F…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $176,533 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…Texas Children's Hospital: $56,500 · HealthTexas Childr…LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $56,000 · HealthLEGACY DONOR…+4 more: $54,750 · Health+4 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $222,300 · EducationLOYOLA UNIV…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $104,500 · EducationTHE ADMINIS…Riverside Academy Inc: $91,750 · EducationRiverside A…LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $75,000 · EducationLIVE OAK WI…OUACHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $52,000 · EducationOUACHITA CH…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $48,480 · EducationUNIVERSITY …METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,750 · Education+12 more: $160,250 · Education+12 moreYOUTH OASIS: $67,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM MUSEUM AND EXPOSITION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $23,500 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC RADIO INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $19,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA AMERICANA AND FOLK SOCIETY: $14,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $12,650 · Arts & CultureEDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $9,375 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCHEEKWOOD BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MUSEUM OF ART: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $19,050 · Arts & CultureRAINTREE SERVICES INC: $52,300 · Human ServicesHUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY: $40,000 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERS: $30,850 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $28,761 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesNOLA4WOMEN INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $168,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $6,000 · Food & NutritionOZANAM INN: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $47,000 · Housing & ShelterHOTEL HOPE: $23,811 · Housing & ShelterGRACE AT THE GREEN LIGHT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterInterfaith Outreach Home Inc: $6,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$5,205,715Health$811,283Education$791,030Arts & Culture$265,575Human Services$198,911Food & Nutrition$194,000Housing & Shelter$182,311

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS: $520,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $239,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS: $228,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $222,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $176,533 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $168,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $150,750 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $104,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOZANAM INN: $95,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetRiverside Academy Inc: $91,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $84,100 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSt John's School: $76,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $75,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH OASIS: $67,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $56,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION: $56,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetRAINTREE SERVICES INC: $52,300 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOUACHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC: $52,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM MUSEUM AND EXPOSITION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $48,480 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $47,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY: $40,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $39,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $36,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC: $34,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetSTUART HALL: $30,940 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $30,850 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $28,761 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPIRIT OF CHARITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetHOTEL HOPE: $23,811 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $23,500 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $23,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC RADIO INC: $22,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $20,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY: $20,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOURO INFIRMARY FOUNDATION: $18,250 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAII PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $15,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION INC CHRISTIAN BROTHERS SCHOOL: $15,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetBelmont University: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOLA4WOMEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LSU HEALTH FOUNDATION NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
  • Who funds Riverside Academy Inc ↗
  • Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds St John's School ↗
  • Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH OASIS ↗
  • Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY DONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RAINTREE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds OUACHITA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM MUSEUM AND EXPOSITION INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA96× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Goldring Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
46report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 400 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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