How much did THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION reported 19 grants totaling $1,591,930 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION based?

THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION is based in LA.

THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION

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· 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.

$1.6M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$500k

Largest

01What you fund

0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$5.3MHuman Services$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MCrime & Legal$835kAnimals$750kFood & Nutrition$666kPhilanthropy$626kYouth Development$343kCommunity Improvement$313kOther$1.5M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

summercsgmilitarybroadchildrenecologyhealthy

2020

medical researchbroadsummercsgmilitarychildrenbasic childhood

2021

discovery healthhealth sciencessocialaccesstrainingachieveecology

2022

hispanicpeerrelationshipsopenlastingcovenantfood

2023

charter studentsorangemusiclabgarden-basedhealthytraining

2024

covenantworkforceanimalanimalssignificantsurgeriesgroups

2025

learndiscovery healthhealth sciencesfuturepeerforcecovenant

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k2 grants · $18k
$10k–50k6 grants · $203k
$50k–250k10 grants · $745k
$250k+1 grant · $500k

$50,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

BALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC$500,000
NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE$146,106
ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC$94,874
SINFONIA GULF COAST$82,054
CAFE RECONCILE$75,000
INGRAM LEE FOUNDATION$69,096
EMERALD COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$68,124
ARC BROWARD$57,500
AUSTIN ED FUND$52,180
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$50,000
BELLE CHASSE ACADEMY$50,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$45,351
DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC$42,500
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$40,000
LOUISIANA RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$40,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.0M · 36 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.0M

$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+52%

Still filing today

89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

AB
ARC BROWARD
7× · 2018–2024 · $757k · revenue +19%
AA
ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $678k · revenue +286%
EC
EMERALD COAST CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
7× · 2018–2024 · $628k · revenue +72%

Funded once

GN
GLOW NC
one grant, 2023 · $540k · revenue -23%
AF
ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +405%
DB
DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +52%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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

Center for Resilience

The center for resilience (cfr) collaborates with the medical mental health, and (cont'd on sch. o) education communities to provide clinically sound, academically effective, and culturally sustaining schooling and care in a diversity of…

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New Harmony High Institute

New Harmony High School empowers each student to actively direct their own learning. As our name suggests, students will work to find new harmonies in order to restore balance that has been lost in our coastal communities, finding new ways…

Education

Renew - Reinventing Education

The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.

Education

Isidore Newman School

A pre-k through 12, independent, co-educational, non-denominational day school in new orleans.

Education

Advocates for Art-Based Education Corp

Advocates for arts-based education corporation is a nonprofit entity that operates the willow school. the willow school is a kindergarten through 12th grade new orleans public school located in uptown new orleans. a charter school is a…

Education

Friends of Codeys Nola

Dedicated to empowering food entrepreneurs on their journey to scale by building bridges to education, collaboration, and capital.

Food & Nutrition

Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

To inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans and its future.

Health

New Schools for Baton Rouge

New schools for baton rouge's mission is to transform schools citywide to ensure there is an excellent school for every child in our city.

Education

French American School of Silicon Valley

To provide students with an academically excellent bilingual and bicultural education which empowers them to succeed in both the french and american education systems and to fully realize their potential as global citizens.

Education

Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans

The mission of ecole bilingue is to develop globally literate students through a rigorous bilingual french-american curriculum, set in a nurturing and multicultural community. we guide our students to excel academically, foster their…

Education

Make Music Nola

Make music nola is an intensive music-for-social-change program. the mission of make music nola is to promote academic achievement, cultivate artistic expression, andpromote the healthy growth and development of children in new…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Firstline Schools Inc 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/75

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,490

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.

05the grantee network

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/69

Grantees still filing

48/69

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$5,317,462Human Services$1,517,604Other$2,822,477Arts & Culture$1,232,500Crime & Legal$834,702Animals$749,858Food & Nutrition$666,100

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA42.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · The Gpoa Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Charles and Betty White · Forekids Foundations Inc · Keller Family Foundation · The St Joe Community 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WATERING HOLE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461662961 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WATERING HOLE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Emeril Lagasse Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Emeril Lagasse Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Emeril Lagasse Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

69 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Emeril Lagasse Foundation?

More from the funding graph