· Private foundation
Virginia Martin Howard Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Virginia Martin Howard Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Virginia Martin Howard Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $524k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GETTY MUSIC LABEL LLC | $100,000 |
| ARTS ON ALEXANDER | $65,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA | $35,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY NETWORK | $30,000 |
| ROOTED MINISTRY | $30,000 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| MCGREGOR BAPTIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF ALEXANDRIAPINEVILLE | $13,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| FOSTERING COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL LOUISIANA COALITION TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Virginia Martin Howard Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 100%.
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 +102% since the first grant, against -65% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 9 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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +134%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +103%
- TGTHE GETTY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $220k · revenue +34% · 71% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LSLOUISIANA SCHOOL FOR MATH SCIENCE AND THE ARTSone grant, 2017 · $45k
- LFLSUA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
To promote architecture.
The mission of the Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
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.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The mission of the association shall be to promote communication and interaction among members and to provide education and training programs on issues of hunger and food banking.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
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 promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
The mission of the new orleans museum of art is to inspire the love of art; to collect, preserve, exhibit and present excellence in the visual arts; to educate, challenge and engage a diverse public.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 44 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GETTY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ARTS ON ALEXANDER ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA COALITION TO PREVENT HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds CALVIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Museum of Art LLC ↗
- Who funds AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTED MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF ALEXANDRIA-PINEVILLE ↗
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: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Christus Health · The Scott Foundation · United Way of Central Louisiana Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Martin Howard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Martin Howard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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