· Private foundation
The Azby Fund
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $289k
- $250k+2 grants · $511k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $261,000 |
| ST TAMMANY PARISH HUMANE SOCIETY | $250,000 |
| RIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $125,000 |
| RECREATIONAL FISHERIES INSTITUTE | $104,000 |
| ST MARY'S DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CULINARY AND HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE | $41,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF WEST END | $40,000 |
| MOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP HANNAN HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NEWMAN SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS | $12,500 |
| FORE KID'S FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| ST MARY'S ASSUMPTION CHURCH | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY PARK3× · 2020–2022 · $743k · revenue +48%
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +22%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $531k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TITULANE INSTITUTE OF SPORTS MEDICINEone grant, 2022 · $250k
- PBPONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue -95% · 99% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2023 · $22k
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.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
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…
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
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.…
The mission of the nord foundation is to support, promote, stimulate public interest in, and raise and distribute funds to benefit the construction, creation, preservation, and maintenance of public parks and playgrounds, recreational…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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…
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.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pamela Sintes Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 99 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 FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds RIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Arts Council of New Orleans ↗
- Who funds RIVERS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Rugby Corporation ↗
- Who funds PONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds FOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds unCommon Construction Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Baptist Community Ministries · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · 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 The Azby Fund 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.
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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