· Private foundation
The Hunter Whealdon Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $4,500 |
| METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION | $3,500 |
| DEACON ED'S FOOD AND HELPING HAND | $3,000 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $2,500 |
| TRINITY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS MISSION | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY OF SO | $2,500 |
| EDEN HOUSE | $2,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS THERAPY CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL HALL FOUNDATIION | $2,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OZANAM INN | $1,500 |
| HOSPICE OF ST TAMMANY | $1,500 |
| LOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +21%
- ECEDEN CENTERS8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +184%
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- HFHELIO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TPThe Please Foundationone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- WCWOODSON CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -21%
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.
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.
Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.
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…
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…
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
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…
Improving the quality of life of the poor and homeless in the downtown new orleans area.
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,…
Turning tables was built by industry mentors and introduced to new orleans with its first graduating class of externs in 2019. what we found that year was a thirst for community within the hospitality industry among black and brown…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds The Please Foundation ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Hunter Whealdon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hunter Whealdon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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