How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Louisiana?

Start with the funders already giving to environment in Louisiana, currently Windward Fund, Waverley Street Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.

Who is the largest environment funder in Louisiana?

Windward Fund gives the most to environment organizations in Louisiana, $15M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to environment in Louisiana?

$198M reached 216 environment organizations in Louisiana, from 540 funders. 14% came from funders also based in Louisiana.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Louisiana · Environment

Who funds environment in Louisiana

Most of it comes from outside Louisiana: only 14% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$198M

granted

216

organizations

14%

from in-state

The short version

540 funders gave $198M to 216 environment organizations in Louisiana across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
14% of that came from funders also based in Louisiana; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of environment in Louisiana is Windward Fund, at $15M.
The environment organization drawing the most is Deep South Center for Environmental, at $32M.

Largest funders of environment in Louisiana

The funders giving the most to environment organizations in Louisiana, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Windward Fund$15M 2Waverley Street Foundation$15M 3The Greater New Orleans Foundation$10M 4Walton Family Foundation Inc$10M 5National Rural Water Association$7M 6The Kresge Foundation$7M 7Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc$6M 8Rockefeller Family Fund Inc$6M 9Freedom Together Foundation$6M 10United States Energy Foundation$6M

Environment organizations in Louisiana that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

206 other environment organizations$69M

Deep South Center for Environmental$32M Taproot Earth$27M Healthy Gulf$16M Alliance for Affordable Energy$10M Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana$8M Louisiana Rural Water Association$7M

How to find environment funders in Louisiana

1
Start with the funders already active in Louisiana
The funders giving the most to environment in Louisiana are Windward Fund, Waverley Street Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation. A funder already writing environment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
86% of environment money in Louisiana comes from funders elsewhere, so national environment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Louisiana.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a environment nonprofit in Louisiana?: Start with the funders already giving to environment in Louisiana, currently Windward Fund, Waverley Street Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation. Then look at who funds the environment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.
Who is the largest environment funder in Louisiana?: Windward Fund gives the most to environment organizations in Louisiana, $15M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to environment in Louisiana?: $198M reached 216 environment organizations in Louisiana, from 540 funders. 14% came from funders also based in Louisiana.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.