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Wendell & Anne Gauthier Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF NEW ORLEANS | $15,000 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| URBAN CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NOUS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EMERGENCY LEGAL RESPONDERS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $5,000 |
| LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YAYA | $5,000 |
| THE ROOTS OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $5,000 |
| SYMPHONY CHORUS OF NEW ORLEANS | $1,650 |
| THE GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS | $1,500 |
| SHERIFF JOSEPH P LOPINTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $304k · revenue +50%
- FEFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +645%
- BHBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION5× · 2018–2024 · $86k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- MAMUSICAL ARTS OF NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2017 · $13k
- NONEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
- FTFOR THE CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
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…
New Orleans Friends of Music is dedicated to promoting the performance and appreciation of fine chamber music. The Organization has a responsibility to the community to bring music to the youth of the city and the cultivate the…
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.
The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
The mission of the new orleans opera association (nooa) is to enrich the lives of all people by producing opera of the highest artistic quality and providing education opportunities through traditional and innovative approaches. the…
The new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Drago's Foundation. 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 25 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) — 4% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 96 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 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL ARTS SOCIETY OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds NOLA Tree Project ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CULTURE AID NOLA ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Urban Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BAYOU ST JOHN ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY LEGAL RESPONDERS ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Louisiana Museum Foundation ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds HAYGROUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NOUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CRUSADERS INC ↗
- Who funds VIDEO VERACITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRAP DAT CAT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LOUISIANA-MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Shell USA Company 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 Wendell & Anne Gauthier 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.
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