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The Toler 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $348k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB | $70,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $47,500 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| REBUILDING HOPE IN NEW ORLEANS | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BRICOLAGE ACADEMY OF NEW ORLEANS | $25,000 |
| SURVIVOR ROWING CLUB | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTERNOLA WKFOR | $20,000 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER I | $15,000 |
| OCHSNER-ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FUND | $15,000 |
| LADIES LEUKEMIA LEAGUE INC | $10,000 |
| NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 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 +54% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- CBCARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB INC9× · 2017–2025 · $418k · revenue +55%
- OCOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $387k · revenue +101%
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $333k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -57%
- SMST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SSST SCHOLASTICA ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
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.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
Dedicated to the elimination of animal suffering by providing care and basic medical services for homeless and unwanted animals with the mission to promote, protect, and advance the well-being of louisiana's companion animals.
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
To be the trusted advocate and resource for our members and the greater new orleans real estate community. we promote the business interests of our members, enhance their professional image and practice, and champion private property…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 47 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 CARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST THOMAS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LADIES LEUKEMIA LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT PAUL'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS ED ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CLOVER NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
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 · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Goldring Family Foundation · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Northshore Community Foundation · Lauricella Land Company 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 Toler 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.
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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