· Private foundation
The Usdin-Weil Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA6× · 2017–2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
- PBPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +57%
- NONEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC3× · 2017–2019 · $4k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- PHPRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION COVID-one grant, 2020 · $5k
- F4FAMILIES 4 FAMILIES - NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TFTEACHER FOR AMERICA-GREATER NEW ORLone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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…
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.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.
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…
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 promote architecture.
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.
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.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Science and Mathematics Education Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
115 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
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 · 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
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 Usdin-Weil 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.
- 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
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.