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The Azby Fund at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$261k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.4MArts & Culture$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.2MAnimals$262kReligion$119kEmployment$96kEnvironment$36kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $289k
  • $250k+2 grants · $511k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $3k → 23%Ellis Marsalis Center for Music: $3k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $3k → 23%Ellis Marsalis Center for Music: $1k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $1k → 23%THE HARRY THOMPSON CENTER INC: $6k → 23%The Harry Thompson Center Inc: $5k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $1k → 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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 62 repeat orgs$706k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
26

Total granted

$3.9M
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-9%

Still filing today

53%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $321k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CITY PARK
    3× · 2020–2022 · $743k · revenue +48%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $550k · revenue +22%
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $531k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TI
    TULANE INSTITUTE OF SPORTS MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • PB
    PONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue -95% · 99% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS
    one grant, 2023 · $22k
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
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

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.

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2
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
4
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-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…

Health
5
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
6
Us Biennial Inc

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.…

Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
8
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
9
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
10
New Orleans Friends of Music

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…

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 99 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $743,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF CITY PARKRIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $366,000 · OtherRIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETYST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL: $288,000 · OtherST MARYS DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOLST TAMMANY PARISH HUMANE SOCIETY: $250,000 · OtherST TAMMANY PARISH HUMANE SOCIETYTULANE INSTITUTE OF SPORTS MEDICINE: $250,000 · OtherTULANE INSTITUTE OF SPORTS MEDICINENEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $96,000 · Other+61 more: $861,920 · Other+61 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $531,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS O…RECREATIONAL FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $221,000 · EducationRECREATIONAL FISHERI…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $31,000 · Education+8 more: $51,500 · Education+8 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $549,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEU…Arts Council of New Orleans: $50,000 · Arts & CultureArts Council of N…RIVERS INSTITUTE: $49,500 · Arts & CultureRIVERS INSTITUTE+9 more: $72,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreLouisiana Rugby Corporation: $47,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $44,000 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $40,000 · PhilanthropyNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyPAMELA SINTES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyPONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATION: $44,000 · Public BenefitSugar Buzz: $7,500 · Public BenefitunCommon Construction Inc: $22,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,854,920Education$834,500Arts & Culture$721,000Recreation & Sports$106,500Philanthropy$58,000Public Benefit$51,500Youth Development$22,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $743,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $549,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $531,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $366,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetRECREATIONAL FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $221,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $96,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetArts Council of New Orleans: $50,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRIVERS INSTITUTE: $49,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetLouisiana Rugby Corporation: $47,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $44,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetPONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetFOREKIDS FOUNDATIONS INC DBA ZURICH CLASSIC OF NEW ORLEANS: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FILM & VIDEO SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetunCommon Construction Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE: $21,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS: $20,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE: $20,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSave Our Cemeteries Inc: $11,500 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Orleans Airlift: $11,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Center: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $8,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSugar Buzz: $7,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAntenna: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAMELA SINTES MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Urban Conservancy: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLouisiana First Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST ANDREW'S VILLAGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetVIEUX CARRE COMMISSION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDEUTSCHES HAUS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds PONTCHARTRAIN BEACH FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 LOUISIANA CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗

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 Orlea…Baptist Community Min…The Almar Foundationd…Goldring Family Found…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Shell USA Company Fou…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Louise H Moffett Fami…Gayle and Tom Benson …Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Patrick F Taylor Foun…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA65.7× affinity33 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 · 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

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 Azby Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Azby Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    How do I get to The Azby Fund?

    Find your warmest path to The Azby Fund 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 99 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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