Louisiana · Private foundation
The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $231k
- Granted FY2023
- 14
- Grants FY2023
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $41,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 4
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 13 | $193k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $243k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $200k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $210k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $224k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $237k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $221k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc | $210,500 | 7 | 0% |
| New Orleans Startup Fund Inc | $179,500 | 6 | 13% |
| Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre | $153,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra | $125,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Louise S McGehee School | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Court Watch Nola | $90,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Nexuscity | $52,370 | 2 | 30% |
| Bridge House Corporation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Audubon Nature Institute Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Make Music Nola | $26,000 | 7 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation with peer funders
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About The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation
- How much does The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation give?
- The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $231,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Health (18%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ($211k), New Orleans Startup Fund Inc ($180k), Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre ($153k).
- Does The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, Goldring Family Foundation.
- Where is The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation based?
- The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundation is based in LA.
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