· Private foundation
The Felterman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUP 15Q ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $2,500 |
| WEDELL WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OCHSNER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY - ALYSSA PERKINS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE - CAMERON MARTIN | $2,000 |
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY - KEATYN HARDEN | $2,000 |
| EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY - DESTIN SMITH | $2,000 |
| FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE - RYAN CHAISSON | $2,000 |
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY - KEAUNCA GRIFFIN | $2,000 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY - ALEXANDER KYLE | $2,000 |
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY - KATIE LEBLANC | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE - KAILEY BENJAMIN | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE - JARVIS MITCHELL | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE - VINCENT BYRD JR | $2,000 |
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, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 22 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF EAST JACKSON COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +46%
- FOFRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +25%
- SMSt Mary Outreach Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA ST MARYone grant, 2022 · $8k
- NSNICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY - MALLORY PERRY YEAR 1one grant, 2018 · $2k
- JMJOHN MELVIN UNIVERSITY - RYLIE CHAISSONone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The society's exempt purpose is to extend medical knowledge, advance medical science, elevate the standards of medical education and training, enforce just medical laws and regulations, promote dialogue and cooperation among physicians and…
The foundation serves as the philanthropic arm of lake charles memorial hospital, working to support and enhance the hospital's mission of providing compassionate care, community service and cutting-edge technology for the people of…
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…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
Fraternal and charitable. Provide scholarships to Catholic student, support for Catholic seminaries located in Louisiana and their overseas missionary work.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
It is the mission of the spirit of charity foundation to support and facilitate patient-centered care, actively promote health and wellness and to advance medical research and education through fundraising efforts for the benefit of umcno,…
The Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation (SLUF) is a 501(c)(3) corporation charged with securing, managing and stewarding private gifts in support of Southeastern Louisiana University. Private support increases the University's…
To foster a tradition of loyalty by connecting and celebrating alumni and the Southeastern Community.
The primary purpose of the foundation is to engage in and carry out scientific research in the fields of medical science, medical economics, public health, sociology, and related areas for the benefit of the interested public, medical…
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Flying Wings of Louisiana Inc. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 164 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 ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY OF EAST JACKSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR TERREBONNE GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · H & B Young Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Felterman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.