Louisiana · 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $32,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Emeril Lagasse Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $454k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $1.2M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $2.1M | 28% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $3.1M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.4M | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arc Broward Inc | $799,190 | 8 | 2% |
| Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc | $758,427 | 8 | 6% |
| New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute | $670,596 | 5 | 4% |
| Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $667,967 | 9 | 11% |
| Austin Public Education Foundation | $552,180 | 3 | 1% |
| Belle Chasse Academy Inc | $551,827 | 5 | 3% |
| Beacon Education Inc | $540,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Sinfonia Gulf Coast Inc | $520,184 | 8 | 9% |
| Friends of Discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc | $511,875 | 2 | 9% |
| Starlight Elementary | $510,000 | 2 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Emeril Lagasse Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Emeril Lagasse Foundation
- How much does The Emeril Lagasse Foundation give?
- The Emeril Lagasse Foundation reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,211,885, out of $1,329,115 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Emeril Lagasse Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (34%), Education (28%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are The Emeril Lagasse Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Arc Broward Inc ($799k), Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc ($758k), New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute ($671k).
- Does The Emeril Lagasse Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Emeril Lagasse Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, New Orleans Community Support Foundation.
- Where is The Emeril Lagasse Foundation based?
- The Emeril Lagasse Foundation is based in LA.
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