Louisiana · 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.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,750
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 22
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Wailes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $18k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $17k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $19k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $20k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $41k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $43k | 72% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $56,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Church of the Good Shepherd Inc | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Orleans Museum of Art | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Louise S McGehee School | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Metairie Park Country Day School | $6,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Broadway Services Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lambeth House Foundation | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Colony Club Community Fund Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Hogs for the Cause Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Wailes Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Wailes Family Foundation
- How much does The Wailes Family Foundation give?
- The Wailes Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $18,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The Wailes Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (56%), Arts & Culture (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Wailes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Trinity Episcopal Church ($57k), Metropolitan Crime Commission Inc ($16k), Church of the Good Shepherd Inc ($13k).
- Does The Wailes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wailes Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Wailes Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda, Baptist Community Ministries, The Greater New Orleans Foundation.
- Where is The Wailes Family Foundation based?
- The Wailes Family Foundation is based in LA.
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