· Private foundation
The Moring Charitable Trust
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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,200 |
| YOUNG LIFE NEW ORLEANS WESTBANK | $3,200 |
| ST CATHERINE OF SIENA | $2,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| IRIS GLOBAL | $2,000 |
| MUNHOLLAND METHODIST CHURCH | $1,200 |
| OCALA CIVIC THEATRE | $1,000 |
| CROSSROADS NOLA | $1,000 |
| FRIO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CEDAR PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL | $500 |
| HOGS FOR THE CAUSE | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN | $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 (FY20–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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 +49% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIRIS GLOBAL5× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +49%
- CCROSSROADS5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +244%
- OCOCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC2× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- BGBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Incone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +20%
- USUSA SPORTING CLAYS TEAMone grant, 2021 · $750
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.
Eden Garden Orphanage cares for orphans in and from the country of Haiti, preventing the otherwise likely outcome of an early death due to malnutrition or disease and /or a life of prostitution or crime.
Covenant house georgia provides shelters, protects and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, runaway and sexually exploited youth.
Building an inheritance by creating housing solutions for the trans and gender nonconforming TGNC community in Louisiana. The organization endeavors to acquire a separate space to serve as a community ce
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…
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…
DBI vision is for every daughter with an incarcerated parent to live a healthy stable life and have a strong, positive, relationship with her parent during and after incarceration.
The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 31 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 IRIS GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds OCALA CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND OFF ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PANTHERTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Krewe de Pink Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH 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 · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Methodist Health System Foundation Inc · The Aaron or Peggy Selber Foundation In · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Moring Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Moring Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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