· Private foundation
The Wailes Family 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH & SCHOOL | $12,750 |
| LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HERMANN-GRIMA HOUSE | $500 |
| CARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB INC | $300 |
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 (FY19–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 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
- TLTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL3× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
- MPMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL4× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +42%
- LHLAMBETH HOUSE FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INCone grant, 2020 · $13k
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- COCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDone grant, 2019 · $7k
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.
Longhouse reserve inspires living with art in all forms. founded by jack lenor larsen, its collections, gardens, art and programs reflect world cultures.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
The carpenters' company preserves and interprets carpenters' hall and our collections as unique historical assets that are tied to our nation's founding and the master builder tradition, and we convene the public to explore and inspire new…
Our goal is to provide our tenants with a gracious lifestyle in a safe, secure, residential setting. we will promote programs which encourage you to practice a healthy lifestyle. we will treat those we serve with dignity and respect. your…
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
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 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 bureau of governmental research is a private, nonprofit, independent research organization dedicated to informed public policy making and the effective use of public resources for the improvement of government in the new orleans…
Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society for Promoting & Encouraging Arts & Knowledge of the Church. 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 52 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 50 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 METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBETH HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLONY CLUB COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOGS FOR THE CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD CLUB ↗
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: Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Aimee Favrot & Michael Bell Family Fund · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Fenner French Foundation · Michael Bright White Family Foundation · The Toler 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 Wailes Family 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.