· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +787%
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
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.
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.
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,…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CARROLLTON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD CLUB ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wailes Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wailes Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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