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

Start with the funders already giving to housing in Louisiana, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc, Enterprise Community Partners Inc. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.

Who is the largest housing funder in Louisiana?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Louisiana, $5M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to housing in Louisiana?

$27M reached 56 housing organizations in Louisiana, from 195 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 · Housing

Who funds housing in Louisiana

$27M reached 56 housing organizations in Louisiana, from 195 funders, with no single one dominating.

$27M

granted

organizations

43%

from in-state

The short version

195 funders gave $27M to 56 housing 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 housing in Louisiana is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $5M.
The housing organization drawing the most is Lafayette Habitat for Humanity Inc, at $6M.

Largest funders of housing in Louisiana

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 2Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc$4M 3Enterprise Community Partners Inc$1M 4Baptist Community Ministries$1M 5The Greater New Orleans Foundation$1M 6Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$1M 7Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$717k 8American Online Giving Foundation Inc$673k 9Impactassetsinc$600k 10The Ayco Charitable Foundation$526k

Housing organizations in Louisiana that draw the most

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

46 other housing organizations$7M

Lafayette Habitat for Humanity Inc$6M Ozanam Inn$4M Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge$2M New Orleans Women and Children's$1M Peoples Housing Inc$1M

How to find housing funders in Louisiana

1
Start with the funders already active in Louisiana
The funders giving the most to housing in Louisiana are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc, Enterprise Community Partners Inc. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the housing 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 housing money in Louisiana comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Louisiana.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Louisiana?: Start with the funders already giving to housing in Louisiana, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc, Enterprise Community Partners Inc. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Louisiana?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to housing organizations in Louisiana, $5M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Louisiana?: $27M reached 56 housing organizations in Louisiana, from 195 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 regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; 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.