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Zemurray Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $586k
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.2M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tulane University$2,705,000
Audubon Nature Institute Foundation$1,000,000
Greater New Orleans Foundation$390,000
Salvadoran American Humanitarian Fu$299,000
Zamorano Pan-Am Agricultural Schoo$260,000
Greater NO Development Foundation$250,000
Contextos NFP$250,000
Bayou District Foundation$100,000
Youth Empowerment Project$100,000
Propeller$83,334
Bureau of Governmental Research$53,000
Kid smART$50,000
Silence is Violence$50,000
Sustaining Our Urban Landscape$50,000
Libertys Kitchen$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%STEM Library Lab: $40k → 15%STEM Library Lab: $40k → 15%STEM Library Lab: $40k → 15%Bayou District Foundation: $100k → 23%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%Propeller: $83k → 23%Harry Tompson Center: $25k → 23%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
CA
TN
DC
LA
MS
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34M · 47 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
20

Total granted

$34M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+17%

Still filing today

74%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8.5M · revenue +44%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +22%
  • AN
    Audubon Nature Institute Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +159%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited SE LA
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • SZ
    Samual Z Stone CIPR Trust
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
2
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
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
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
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
7
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
8
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
9
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
10
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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11
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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12
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc; the most unlike its peers is Max McGraw Wildlife 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

52 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. 52 of the 76 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Samuel Z Stone CIPR Trust: $4,500,000 · OtherSamuel Z Stone CIPR TrustBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $1,239,000 · OtherBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INCZamorano Pan-Am Agricultural Schoo: $1,193,333 · OtherZamorano Pan-Am Agricultural SchooIndividual grant recipient: $966,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSalvadoran American Humanitarian Fo: $515,500 · OtherCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,270,000 · OtherCITY PARK CONSERVANCYSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $750,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC+39 more: $3,930,833 · Other+39 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,540,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE …+7 more: $495,000 · Education+7 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,844,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM…DEEP SOUTH TODAY: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $312,000 · Arts & CultureAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $2,287,500 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsSALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $944,505 · InternationalCONTEXTOS NFP: $850,000 · InternationalFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · International+1 more: $30,000 · InternationalAudubon Nature Institute Foundation: $1,500,000 · EnvironmentSustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL: $200,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $60,000 · Environment+1 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,745,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$15,365,333Education$9,035,000Arts & Culture$6,456,500Animals$2,297,500International$1,924,505Environment$1,767,500Philanthropy$1,760,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8,540,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $5,844,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $2,287,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $1,745,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Foundation: $1,500,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCITY PARK CONSERVANCY: $1,270,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $1,239,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC: $944,505 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCONTEXTOS NFP: $850,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $750,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $475,000 over 6y, 1.9% 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 budgetSustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL: $200,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE IDEA VILLAGE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSTEM LIBRARY LAB: $120,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION: $106,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetSILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE: $100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetFABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetKID SMART: $85,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $80,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $80,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMax McGraw Wildlife Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH RUN NOLA INC: $45,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $42,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HISPANIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,500 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetlowernineorg: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNONPROFIT KNOWLEDGE WORKS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSecond Line Arts Collective: $15,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSecond Look Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLOW COST ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUPTURN ARTS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds BUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SALVADORAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONTEXTOS NFP ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds DEEP SOUTH TODAY ↗
  • Who funds Sustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL ↗
  • Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE IDEA VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds STEM LIBRARY LAB ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SILENCE IS VIOLENCE FKA NEW ORLEANS BAYOU STEPPERS SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE ↗
  • Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KID SMART ↗
  • Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
  • Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗

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 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

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 Zemurray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Zemurray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home