· Private foundation
The Ida & Hugh Kohlmeyer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 |
|---|---|
| THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION TEMPLE SINAI | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $500 |
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 (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +78% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2020 · $25k · revenue -45%
- TUTULANE UNIVERSITY-NEWCOMB ART MUSEUM2× · 2019–2020 · $8k
- TNTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM2× · 2023–2024 · $2k
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +138%
- NONEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +22%
- NANEWCOMB ART MUSEUM AT TULANE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
Louisiana art & science museum seeks to enhance the understanding and appreciation of art and science for general audiences and students by presenting unique, educational and entertaining programming that encourages discovery, inspires…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
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…
To provide community, grants, programming, and marketing support for the chronically underfunded state-owned and operated louisiana state museum (lsm) system, including the cabildo, presbytere, new orleans jazz museum at the old u.s. mint,…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The museum provides exhibition experiences and educational programming that connects visitors to the history and lessons of the holocaust with the goal of combating hatred, promoting understanding, and modeling and inspiring humanitarian…
To further the interest in the history of pharmacology and promote its further development for the benefit of the general public.
The jewish endowment foundation of louisiana (jef), chartered in 1967, ensures a secure future and an enduring legacy by serving as an essential resource for jewish and non-jewish philanthropy.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 19 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 NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
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: Goldring Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ida & Hugh Kohlmeyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ida & Hugh Kohlmeyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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