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The Usdin-Weil Foundation at a glance

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The Usdin-Weil Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$69k
Granted FY2022
69
Grants FY2022
11
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Usdin-Weil Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Greater New Orleans Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Usdin-Weil Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 38 organizations, $69k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

41
’17
54
’18
49
’19
35
’20
36
’21
38
’22
9
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$1.2MEducation$65kArts & Culture$46kHealth$35kYouth Development$34kReligion$32kFood & Nutrition$25kCrime & Legal$19kOther$0
02FY2022 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$7,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NO$5,900
TOURO SYNAGOGUE$5,500
JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION OF LOUI$5,200
CRESCENT CARE$5,000
COMMON EDGE COLLABORATIVE$3,000
TEMPLE SINAI$2,645
AUDUBON NATURE INSTITUTE AUDUBON PA$2,600
AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST$2,250
PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION$2,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,750
COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS INC$1,500
BGR-BUREAU OF GOVERMENTAL RESEARCH$1,250
NEWMAN SCHOOL$1,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.

area typical 12%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $100 → 23%JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING: $100 → 15%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $75 → 23%JEFFERSON COUNCIL ON AGING: $50 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $300 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $300 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $100 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $50 → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $300 → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $150 → 23%PROPELLER A FORCE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION: $2k → 23%PROPELLER A FORCE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION: $2k → 23%PROPELLER A FORCE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION: $1k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $250 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $150 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $100 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $100 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $50 → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $500 → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$249k · 90 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

90 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2022, 43 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
121

Total granted

$249k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

56%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • PB
    PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +57%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • PH
    PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION COVID-
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FT
    FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • F4
    FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES - NEW ORLEANS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
University of New Orleans Foundation

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…

Education
3
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

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.

Education
4
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
5
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.

Community Improvement
6
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

—
7
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

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'…

Community Improvement
8
Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

—
9
Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

Arts & Culture
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Louisiana Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc

Louisiana appleseed solves our state's toughest problems at their root cause by advocating for access to justice, opportunity, and education. we believe that our state will be stronger through fair and equitable access to the courts, the…

Human Services
12
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc; the most unlike its peers is Poydras Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 115 of the 242 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/115
Grantees still filing
86/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,181,891 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION+4 more: $23,790 · PhilanthropyTOURO SYNAGOGUE: $15,500 · OtherTOURO SYNAGOGUETEMPLE SINAI: $12,100 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA-GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $10,350 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD GULF COAST: $10,200 · OtherBEN FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · Other+149 more: $178,263 · Other+149 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $13,250 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $3,425 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $2,775 · Arts & CultureEFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $2,600 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts Center: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $3,300 · Arts & CultureSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $24,925 · Food & NutritionLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $4,150 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationEDNAVIGATOR INC: $3,000 · EducationTHE LENS: $2,950 · EducationMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $1,450 · EducationISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,175 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,050 · EducationKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $1,000 · Education+6 more: $1,875 · EducationNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $2,500 · Crime & LegalLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $1,550 · Crime & LegalVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $1,250 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $600 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $9,100 · Public Safety & Disasterlowernineorg: $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$1,205,681Other$236,413Arts & Culture$28,150Food & Nutrition$24,925Education$23,150Crime & Legal$11,900Public Safety & Disaster$10,100

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,181,891 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $24,925 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $19,540 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $13,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $9,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $4,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $4,150 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPOYDRAS HOME: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $3,425 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LENS: $2,950 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKID SMART: $2,775 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $2,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE LOUISIANA frmly EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA: $1,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $1,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRACE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL: $1,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPORT GIBSON JEWISH CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetJEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE: $1,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetlowernineorg: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATTOOGA CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds POYDRAS HOME ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDNAVIGATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LENS ↗
  • Who funds KID SMART ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds EFFORTS OF GRACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITY OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Goldring Family Found…Baptist Community Min…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Keller Family Foundat…Woldenberg FoundationThe Booth-Bricker FundLuther and Zita Templ…Ella West Freeman Fou…United Way of Southea…The Almar Foundationd…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA99.7× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Keller Family Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Luther and Zita Templeman Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Usdin-Weil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Usdin-Weil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 242 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home