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The Hunter Whealdon Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY OF SO | $2,500 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| METROPOLITON CRIME COMMISSION | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS MISSION | $2,500 |
| OZANAM INN | $2,500 |
| DEACON ED'S FOOD AND HELPING HAND | $2,500 |
| THE NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| EDEN HOUSE | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER | $1,500 |
| PLEASE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| HOSPICE OF ST TAMMANY | $1,500 |
| MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATIION | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +21%
- ECEDEN CENTERS7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +184%
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- HFHELIO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- WCWOODSON CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -21%
- NTNOLA Tree Projectone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -43%
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.
Heroes of New Orleans is a grassroot 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and empowering youth and families. Our mission is to elevate underprivileged youth and families who face poverty or its risks, through a…
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
Roots of renewal is committed to holistic solutions for the root causes of violence so that forgotten neighborhoods can reach their full potential. the purpose of roots of renewal is to address the educational, economic, and racial…
Support of the new orleans police department and orleans parish criminal justice system along with crime prevention activities with the public. nopjf helps the nopd initiate innovative programs that make new orleans a safer place to live,…
Improving the quality of life of the poor and homeless in the downtown new orleans area.
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
Covenant house new orleans (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization affiliated with 34 similar organizations across five countries, all of which are affiliates of covenant house international (parent affiliate) and share a…
Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Please Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OZANAM INN ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOLA Tree Project ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MONUMENTAL TASK COMMITTEE INC ↗
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 · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Aimee Favrot & Michael Bell Family Fund · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Hunter Whealdon 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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