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Zemurray 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.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$8.4MArts & Culture$6.5MScience & Tech$4.5MAnimals$2.8MInternational$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MRecreation & Sports$1.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $202k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $783k
  • $250k+9 grants · $6.0M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samuel Z Stone CIPR Trust$1,500,000
Tulane University$1,275,000
Childrens Hospital$1,000,000
Ducks Unlimited SE LA$500,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation$465,000
Zamorano Pan-Am Agricultural Schoo$450,000
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Fu$300,000
Contextos NFP$250,000
Greater NO Development Foundation$250,000
Deep South Today$150,000
St Augustine High School$100,000
Youth Empowerment Project$100,000
Touro Synagogue$100,000
Propeller$83,333
Silence is Violence$50,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $899k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%STEM Library Lab: $40k → 15%STEM Library Lab: $40k → 15%Bayou District Foundation: $100k → 23%Kingsley House: $3k → 23%NO Family Justice Alliance: $50k → 23%Propeller A Force for Social Innova: $250k → 23%Propeller A Force for Social Innova: $250k → 23%Propeller: $83k → 23%Propeller: $83k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ID
IL
NY
CA
TN
DC
LA
MS
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$28M · 39 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
19

Total granted

$28M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+19%

Still filing today

72%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +44%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +22%
  • AN
    Audubon Nature Institute Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • AN
    Audubon Nature Institute Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -14%
  • SZ
    Samual Z Stone CIPR Trust
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • BD
    BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
2
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
3
Arts Council of New Orleans

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.

Arts & Culture
4
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

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.

Education
5
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-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…

Health
6
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
7
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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8
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
9
Invest in Louisiana

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.

Public Benefit
10
Nola Business Alliance

Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…

Community Improvement
11
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

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

Community Improvement
12
New Orleans Youth Alliance

Guided by our community and grounded in racial equity intersectional equity and youth leadership New Orleans Youth Alliance fosters youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stem Library Lab. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr16%7%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%5%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr13%41%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
18%
865/4,846

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.

04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Samuel Z Stone CIPR Trust — $4,500,000 · OtherSamuel Z Stone CIPR TrustBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $1,186,000 · OtherBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INCIndividual grant recipient — $966,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZamorano Pan-Am Agricultural Schoo — $933,333 · OtherZamorano Pan-Am Agricultural SchooSalvadoran American Humanitarian Fo — $515,500 · OtherDucks Unlimited SE LA — $500,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS — $666,666 · OtherAudubon Nature Institute Foundation — $500,000 · Other+36 more — $2,974,499 · Other+36 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART — $5,827,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF…DEEP SOUTH TODAY — $300,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $182,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,835,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF…+4 more — $370,000 · Education+4 moreAudubon Nature Institute Inc — $2,275,000 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $1,355,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropySALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $645,505 · InternationalCONTEXTOS NFP — $600,000 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · International+1 more — $15,000 · InternationalCITY PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,235,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$13,742,665Arts & Culture$6,309,000Education$6,205,000Animals$2,285,000Philanthropy$1,365,500International$1,360,505Recreation & Sports$1,235,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,835,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART — $5,827,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc — $2,275,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $1,355,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY — $1,235,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC — $1,186,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS — $666,666 over 4y, 17% of budgetSALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC — $645,505 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCONTEXTOS NFP — $600,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT — $375,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $333,333 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEEP SOUTH TODAY — $300,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL — $150,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE IDEA VILLAGE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION — $106,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTEM LIBRARY LAB — $80,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE — $50,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $40,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP — $40,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $37,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKID SMART — $35,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetYOUTH RUN NOLA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetlowernineorg — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSecond Look Alliance — $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation — $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRoots of Music Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSecond Line Arts Collective — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLOVER NOLA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baptist Community Min…The Greater New Orlea…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Goldring Family Found…The Usdin-Weil Founda…The Almar Foundationd…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Booth-Bricker FundKeller Family Foundat…New Orleans Community…Patrick F Taylor Foun…Louise H Moffett Fami…
Baptist Community MinistriesLA50.6× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Patrick F Taylor Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family 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 Zemurray 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Zemurray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zemurray Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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