· Public charity
The Emeril Lagasse Foundation
Emeril lagasse foundation seeks to create opportunities to inspire, mentor, and enable youth to reach their fullest potential through culinary, nutrition, and arts education with a focus on life skills development.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $1,211,885 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,329,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $117,230 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $368k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $827k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC | $230,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE | $213,490 |
| SON OF A SAINT | $100,000 |
| SINFONIA GULF COAST | $71,076 |
| INGRAM LEE FOUNDATION | $62,827 |
| CAFE HOPE | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY | $50,000 |
| ARC BROWARD | $42,250 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $40,000 |
| ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC | $39,819 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $32,500 |
| ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION | $32,000 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | $30,458 |
| MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k 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
- ABARC BROWARD INC8× · 2018–2025 · $799k · revenue +31%
- AAALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +286%
- ECEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $668k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- BEBEACON EDUCATION INCone grant, 2023 · $540k · revenue -68%
- DBDC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +62%
- AFACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -53%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Marigold Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
76 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. 76 of the 82 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 ARC BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SINFONIA GULF COAST INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds The Ingram Lee Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Smoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY ↗
- Who funds SONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Life Lab Science Program ↗
- Who funds The Watering Hole Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE LRA INC ↗
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 · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Gpoa Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Republic National Distributing Company Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Dugas Family Foundation Inc
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 Emeril Lagasse Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Seaside School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.