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Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$97kEducation$34kHuman Services$16kPhilanthropy$16kHealth$11kEnvironment$11kFood & Nutrition$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$480k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Loyola University New Orleans$16,000
Friends of Westport Island History$6,750
Westport Island Community Associati$5,000
Ogden Museum of Southern Art$4,860
Maine State Musical Theatre$2,500
Pass Christian Historical Society$2,000
Greater Houston Community Foundatio$2,000
Korean War Veterans Memorial Founda$2,000
Lincoln County Historical Associati$1,500
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust$1,000
The Salvation Army$1,000
Wiscasset Public Library$1,000
Westport Volunteer Fire Department$1,000
UT Health Science Center$1,000
Little Petit Theatre$730
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%Mountain High Foundation: $1k → 13%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$179k · 23 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
10

Total granted

$179k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
-17%

Still filing today

39%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • LU
    LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $23k · revenue +6%
  • PC
    PASS CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +119%
  • WV
    WESTPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NO
    New Orleans Film Society
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • HB
    Houston Bar Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -30%
  • MH
    Mountain High Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +93%
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
Maritime Museum Louisiana

The organizations mission is to preserve the marine, naval, and maritime history of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, including its cultural heritage. We do so by collecting , preserving, analyzing, interpreting, and exhibiting these cultural…

Arts & Culture
2
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Abbe Museum

To illuminate and advance greater understanding of and support for Wabanaki Nations' heritage, living cultures, and homelands.

Arts & Culture
5
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.

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6
The Charleston Museum

To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.

Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans African American Museum of Art Culture and History

The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.

Arts & Culture
8
Art Museum of Southeast Texas

Through unique collections, exhibitions, public programs and outreach in the visual arts, the mission of the Art Museum of Southeast Texas is to provide education, inspiration and creative visions throughout Southeast Texas.

Arts & Culture
9
Louisiana Art & Science Museuminc

Louisiana art & science museum seeks to enhance the understanding and appreciation of art and science for general audiences and students by presenting unique, educational and entertaining programming that encourages discovery, inspires…

Arts & Culture
10
Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum

To preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of biloxi and the mississippi gulf coast.

Arts & Culture
11
Maine Maritime Museum

To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.

Arts & Culture
12
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

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

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mountain High Foundation. 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

16 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. 16 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF WESTPORT ISLAND HISTORY: $23,616 · OtherFRIENDS OF WESTPORT ISLAND HISTORYWestport Island Community Associati: $15,000 · OtherWestport Island Community AssociatiWESTPORT ISLAND HELPING HANDS: $8,800 · OtherWESTPORT ISLAND HELPING HANDSPASS CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,500 · OtherPASS CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETYLincoln County Historical Associati: $7,965 · OtherLincoln County Historical AssociatiUniversity of Texas Health IMM: $7,000 · OtherUniversity of Texas Health IMMKorean War Veterans Memorial Founda: $4,000 · OtherNew Orleans Film Festival: $3,892 · OtherRiver Oaks Country Club Scholarship: $3,500 · Other+16 more: $18,520 · Other+16 moreOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $28,580 · Arts & CultureOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTH…NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,480 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF…MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $3,500 · Arts & CultureMAINE STATE MUSIC THE…+2 more: $1,393 · Arts & CultureLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNIVERSI…WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,750 · EducationWISCASSET PUBLI…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $8,540 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $10,500 · EnvironmentWESTPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHouston Bar Foundation: $1,100 · Crime & LegalMountain High Foundation: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 · Human Services
Other$100,793Arts & Culture$38,953Education$27,750Philanthropy$15,540Environment$10,500Public Safety & Disaster$7,000Crime & Legal$1,100Human Services$1,100

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 budgetOGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART: $28,580 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST: $10,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $8,540 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPASS CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,500 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetWESTPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,480 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY: $4,750 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBay Saint Louis Little Theater Inc: $1,131 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHouston Bar Foundation: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMountain High Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNAMI GREATER HOUSTON: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 over 1y, 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 OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC ESTUARY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PASS CHRISTIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds WISCASSET PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds MAINE STATE MUSIC THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Bay Saint Louis Little Theater Inc ↗
  • Who funds Houston Bar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Mountain High Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds OHR-O'KEEFE MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Theodore M Louana H and Monica A Frois Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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