How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Louisiana?

Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Louisiana, currently Feeding America, The Chicago Community Trust, Feeding Louisiana. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.

How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Louisiana?

$217M reached 325 food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana, from 666 funders. 43% 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 · Food and agriculture

Who funds food and agriculture in Louisiana

$217M reached 325 food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana, from 666 funders, with no single one dominating.

$217M

granted

325

organizations

43%

from in-state

The short version

666 funders gave $217M to 325 food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
43% of that came from funders also based in Louisiana; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of food and agriculture in Louisiana is Feeding America, at $46M.
The food and agriculture organization drawing the most is Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, at $87M.

Largest funders of food and agriculture in Louisiana

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

1Feeding America$46M 2The Chicago Community Trust$31M 3Feeding Louisiana$25M 4Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$17M 5Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$12M 6The Greater New Orleans Foundation$6M 7Baton Rouge Area Foundation$4M 8Community Foundation of North Louisiana$3M 9United Way of Southeast Louisiana$3M 10Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation$3M

Food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana that draw the most

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

Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$87M

315 other food and agriculture organizations$26M

Northwest Louisiana Food Bank$23M Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$22M Gbrfb Mission Support$17M The Food Bank of Central Louisiana$16M

How to find food and agriculture funders in Louisiana

1
Start with the funders already active in Louisiana
The funders giving the most to food and agriculture in Louisiana are Feeding America, The Chicago Community Trust, Feeding Louisiana. A funder already writing food and agriculture checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the food and agriculture 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
57% of food and agriculture money in Louisiana comes from funders elsewhere, so national food and agriculture funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Louisiana.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a food and agriculture nonprofit in Louisiana?: Start with the funders already giving to food and agriculture in Louisiana, currently Feeding America, The Chicago Community Trust, Feeding Louisiana. Then look at who funds the food and agriculture organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.
Who is the largest food and agriculture funder in Louisiana?: Feeding America gives the most to food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana, $46M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to food and agriculture in Louisiana?: $217M reached 325 food and agriculture organizations in Louisiana, from 666 funders. 43% 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.