· Private foundation
The Holt Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $250k+3 grants · $914k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $406,250 |
| KID SMART-ROOT REACH CAMPAIGN | $257,500 |
| NOCCA INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| ARC ATHENS INC | $25,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS | $20,000 |
| JEFFERSON ELEMENARY SCHOOL PTO | $15,007 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $10,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OGDEN MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE SCIENCE FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF SUMMIT PUBLIC ART | $5,000 |
| SUMMIT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY | $3,310 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 37% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- SASCHOLARSHIP AMERICA8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M
- NONEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $513k · revenue -333%
- KSKID SMART7× · 2017–2024 · $338k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- LCLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -35%
- CSCORNERSTONE SCHOOL OF SUMMIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +31%
- NNOMAFone grant, 2019 · $25k
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 mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
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…
The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.
Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…
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…
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…
The mission of the children's museum of southwest louisiana is to provide an educational and fun environment that encourages curiosity, creativity and social skills through hands on programs and exhibits. our goal is to educate children…
To promote the arts through educational programs for the youth of new orleans.
Our mission at NOLA Nature School is to provide all children and families with an educational opportunity that respects the place we live and follows the interest of the students while supporting all domains of a child's development and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Smart and the most unlike its peers is Restore or Retreat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 44 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 NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE SCIENCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE UNDER SAIL INSTITUTE FOR EXPLORATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOL OF SUMMIT INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE MUSIC NOLA ↗
- Who funds ARC ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUMMIT PUBLIC ART INC ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FBI AGENTS ASSOCIATION MEMORIAL COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCARE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds HEROES OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ruth U Fertel Foundation · The Helis Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman 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 Holt Family 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.
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