Louisiana · Private foundation
The Felterman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $79k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $945k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations The Felterman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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 | 65 | $79k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $70k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $68k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $79k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $64k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $57k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $60k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $55k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wedell Williams Memorial Foundation Inc | $15,500 | 9 | n/a |
| St Vincent de Paul Society of East Jackson County | $10,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Mary Council on Aging Inc | $8,750 | 9 | 0% |
| St Mary Outreach Inc | $8,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Hope Baptist Church | $8,250 | 9 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $8,250 | 9 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Terrebonne General Health System | $7,750 | 9 | 1% |
| Louisiana Youth Seminar Inc | $5,250 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 135 recipients with no EIN on record ($468k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Felterman Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Felterman Foundation
- How much does The Felterman Foundation give?
- The Felterman Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $78,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Felterman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Health (17%), Religion (12%).
- Who are The Felterman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wedell Williams Memorial Foundation Inc ($16k), St Vincent de Paul Society of East Jackson County ($10k), Friends of Louisiana Public Broadcasting Inc ($9k).
- Does The Felterman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Felterman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Felterman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Acadiana, Shell USA Company Foundation, H & B Young Foundation.
- Where is The Felterman Foundation based?
- The Felterman Foundation is based in LA.
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