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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$5.2MEducation$4.3MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.3MYouth Development$1.0MAnimals$850kCrime & Legal$684kHealth$287kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 24 grants below total $1,211,885, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,329,115 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $117,230 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $368k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $827k
$32,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY$50,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$50,000
CAFE HOPE$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ARC BROWARD: $375k → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $72k → 6%ACHIEVEMENT AND REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $100k → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $35k → 6%ARC BROWARD: $90k → 13%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $35k → 6%ARC BROWARD: $75k → 13%ARC BROWARD: $58k → 13%MATTIE KELLY ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 8%ARC BROWARD: $44k → 13%ARC BROWARD: $42k → 13%MATRIX COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER: $33k → 11%ARC BROWARD: $15k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $60k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $43k → 13%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $27k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE: $100k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $50k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $33k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $30k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $25k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $17k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $17k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NV
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 43 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
33

Total granted

$11M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-7%

Still filing today

91%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • AB
    ARC BROWARD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $799k · revenue +31%
  • AA
    ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $758k · revenue +286%
  • EC
    EMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $668k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BE
    BEACON EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $540k · revenue -68%
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -53%
  • DB
    DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +62%
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
Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts Foundation Inc

The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…

Education
2
Kid Smart

Kid smart's mission is to engage children and educators in dynamic, creative, and relevant learning through the arts. we do this through integrating the arts into public schools, making them more joyful and effective places to learn.

Arts & Culture
3
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation

Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.

Health
4
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
5
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
6
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
7
American Culinary Federation Education Foundation Inc

To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession

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8
Isidore Newman School

Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.

Education
9
Organic Farm School

As a learning center, the organic farm school trains new farmers to develop and manage farms focused on ecological, economic and social regeneration - simultaneously offerring opportunities for our community and others to learn about their…

Education
10
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.

Philanthropy
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 82 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/76
Grantees still filing
45/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $552,180 · EducationAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INC: $551,827 · EducationBELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INCBEACON EDUCATION INC: $540,000 · EducationBEACON EDUCATION INCFRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $511,875 · EducationFRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUND…ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCH…DC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 · EducationDC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLBALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC: $500,000 · EducationBALTIMORE MONTESSORI INCTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $472,672 · EducationTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCThe Ingram Lee Foundation: $444,414 · EducationThe Ingram Lee FoundationFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC: $424,904 · EducationFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC+10 more: $702,125 · Education+10 moreNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $670,596 · OtherNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSP…STARLIGHT ELEMENTARY: $510,000 · OtherSTARLIGHT ELEMENTARYST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL: $227,675 · OtherST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOLKEEP MEMORY ALIVE: $196,534 · OtherKEEP MEMORY ALIVESONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $262,500 · OtherSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOU…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $262,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE…SON OF A SAINT: $283,000 · OtherSON OF A SAINTRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $165,000 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $223,440 · OtherHISPANIC FEDERATION INC+25 more: $854,130 · Other+25 moreSINFONIA GULF COAST INC: $520,184 · Arts & CultureSINFONIA GUL…NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $392,588 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS …ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS RES…Southern Smoke Foundation: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSouthern Smo…THE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $98,516 · Arts & CultureTHE TROY AND…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE LRA INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureEDUCATION FO…LYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $71,796 · Arts & CultureAdopt the Arts Foundation: $63,250 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $70,617 · Arts & CultureARC BROWARD INC: $799,190 · Human ServicesARC BROWARD …THE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $390,059 · Human ServicesTHE DAN MARI…COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $272,428 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOU…CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $142,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHER…+2 more: $63,333 · Human ServicesEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $667,967 · Crime & LegalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $250,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $16,500 · Crime & LegalALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $758,427 · AnimalsThe Watering Hole Foundation Inc: $91,450 · AnimalsSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $471,000 · Food & NutritionCAFE HOPE INC: $330,100 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $38,500 · Food & Nutrition
Education$5,699,997Other$3,655,375Arts & Culture$1,676,951Human Services$1,667,010Crime & Legal$934,467Animals$849,877Food & Nutrition$839,600

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 budgetARC BROWARD INC: $799,190 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $758,427 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE: $670,596 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $667,967 over 9y, 11% of budgetAUSTIN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $552,180 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INC: $551,827 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetBEACON EDUCATION INC: $540,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSINFONIA GULF COAST INC: $520,184 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $511,875 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDC BILINGUAL PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetBALTIMORE MONTESSORI INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $472,672 over 2y, 32% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $471,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ingram Lee Foundation: $444,414 over 8y, 31% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT OUTREACH INC: $424,904 over 9y, 10% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $392,588 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetTHE DAN MARINO FOUNDATION INC: $390,059 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCAFE HOPE INC: $330,100 over 5y, 22% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $283,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $272,428 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $262,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $262,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $250,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetILLINOIS RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $223,440 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $165,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $142,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSouthern Smoke Foundation: $140,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC: $139,600 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetPARTNERS FOR EDUCATION AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY: $107,500 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY VINTNERS & GROWERS FOUNDATION: $105,425 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHUMBLE ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE TROY ANDREWS FOUNDATION: $98,516 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetLife Lab Science Program: $95,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Watering Hole Foundation Inc: $91,450 over 9y, 54% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF THE LRA INC: $90,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetSAMUELI ACADEMY: $84,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $77,025 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetECOCENTER INC: $74,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER: $71,796 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL INC: $69,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBROAD COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $65,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetAdopt the Arts Foundation: $63,250 over 1y, 13% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE: $55,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetLOUISIANA HOSPITALITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCHILDRENS VOLUNTEER HEALTH NETWORK INC: $49,460 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetORANGE COUNTY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS FOUNDATION: $48,500 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

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…New Orleans Community…Goldring Family Found…The Gpoa FoundationPro Bono Publico Foun…The St Joe Community …Oscar J Tolmas Charit…Gulf Power Foundation…Republic National Dis…Shell USA Company Fou…Dugas Family Foundati…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA37.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Seaside School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 82 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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