How much does Zemurray Foundation give?

Zemurray Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $6,104,168 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Zemurray Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (14%).

Who are Zemurray Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($8.5M), New Orleans Museum of Art ($5.8M), Audubon Nature Institute Inc ($2.3M).

Does Zemurray Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Zemurray Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Zemurray Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baptist Community Ministries, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.

Where is Zemurray Foundation based?

Zemurray Foundation is based in LA.

Foundation Dossiers

Louisiana · Private foundation

Zemurray 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.

$6.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2025: 32
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $35,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $2,705,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 32; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $100M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Zemurray Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	37	$5.7M	22%
FY2024	32	$6.5M	28%
FY2023	31	$6.5M	32%
FY2022	28	$7.4M	54%
FY2021	19	$5.5M	21%
FY2020	29	$5.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$8,540,000	6	0%
New Orleans Museum of Art	$5,844,500	6	23%
Audubon Nature Institute Inc	$2,287,500	6	2%
Audubon Nature Institute Foundation	$1,500,000	2	11%
City Park Conservancy	$1,270,000	3	6%
Bureau of Governmental Research Inc	$1,239,000	6	5%
Children's Hospital Inc	$1,000,000	1	0%
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc	$944,505	4	1%
Contextos Nfp	$850,000	5	11%
Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans	$750,000	5	17%

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All grantees of Zemurray Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$8,540,000	6	0%
New Orleans Museum of Art	$5,844,500	6	23%
Audubon Nature Institute Inc	$2,287,500	6	2%
Audubon Nature Institute Foundation	$1,500,000	2	11%
City Park Conservancy	$1,270,000	3	6%
Bureau of Governmental Research Inc	$1,239,000	6	5%
Children's Hospital Inc	$1,000,000	1	0%
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc	$944,505	4	1%
Contextos Nfp	$850,000	5	11%
Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans	$750,000	5	17%
Youth Empowerment Project	$475,000	6	2%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana	$333,333	2	0%
Deep South Today	$300,000	2	2%
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL	$200,000	3	13%
New Schools for New Orleans Inc	$200,000	2	1%
Bayou District Foundation	$200,000	2	4%
The Idea Village Inc	$150,000	3	3%
STEM Library Lab	$120,000	3	6%
New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation	$106,000	3	6%
Silence Is Violence Fka New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure	$100,000	2	10%
Touro Synagogue	$100,000	1	n/a
Fabretto Children's Foundation Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Kid Smart	$85,500	4	2%
Live Oak Wilderness Camp	$80,000	2	2%
Metairie Park Country Day School	$80,000	1	0%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated	$60,000	2	0%
Pro Bono Publico Foundation	$60,000	6	1%
Loyola University	$50,000	1	0%
Liberty's Kitchen Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance	$50,000	1	1%
Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Youth Run Nola Inc	$45,000	3	5%
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra	$42,500	3	1%
Copan Maya Foundation	$40,500	4	n/a
New Orleans Hispanic Heritage Foundation Inc	$40,500	5	9%
Young Aspirations Young Artists Inc	$40,000	4	3%
Junior Achievement	$30,000	2	3%
Roots of Music Inc	$25,000	2	1%
lowernineorg	$25,000	1	3%
The Harry Tompson Center Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Bright School for the Deaf	$25,000	2	2%
Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Second Line Arts Collective	$15,000	2	4%
Second Look Alliance	$15,000	1	5%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$15,000	3	0%
The Louisiana Museum Foundation	$12,500	2	1%
Start the Adventure in Reading Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Low Cost Animal Medical Center	$10,000	1	1%
St Martins Episcopal School	$10,000	1	n/a
Upturn Arts	$10,000	1	2%
Sawtooth Society Inc	$7,500	3	1%
Friends of City Park	$5,000	1	0%
Louisiana Childrens Museum	$3,500	2	0%
Clover Nola Inc	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.2M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zemurray Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

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

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.

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About Zemurray Foundation

How much does Zemurray Foundation give?: Zemurray Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $6,104,168 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Zemurray Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (14%).
Who are Zemurray Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($8.5M), New Orleans Museum of Art ($5.8M), Audubon Nature Institute Inc ($2.3M).
Does Zemurray Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zemurray Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Zemurray Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baptist Community Ministries, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation.
Where is Zemurray Foundation based?: Zemurray Foundation is based in LA.