Louisiana · Nonprofit
KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN
KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,312 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($357,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $470M
What Kemper and Leila Williams Foundation In does
Programs
The historic new orleans collection1. Major exhibitions - five major exhibitions including: captive state: louisiana and the making of mass incarceration; prospect 6: gesture to home by didier william; unkown sitters; mystery and benevolence: masonic and odd fellows folk art; a vanishing bounty: louisiana's coastal environment and culture. 2. Other exhibitions-eight, including edge of tomorrow: aerial views of louisiana's changing coastline by ben depp; championship memories; french quarter life: people and places in the vieux carr; a mystic brotherhood: fraternal orders of new orleans; history of the french quarter; louisiana sites & citizens; purchased lives: new orleans and the domestic slave trade; paul ninas mural 3. Offsite/traveling exhibitions- two, the trail they blazed; purchased lives: new orleans and the domestic slave trade 4. Programs - public programs and events were presented in connection with exhibitions throughout the year for (continued as a 990-pf footnote)
$20,032,964 spentSt. Mary parish police jury f/b/o the kemper williams park - the kemper and leila williams foundation provides financial assistance to operate the kemper williams park servinc residents of st. Mary parish and the surrounding area. Construction and operation of the park were provided for in the wills of kemper and leila williams and accomplished through an act of donation on july 26, 1978. Monies are paid semi-annually to the st. Mary parish police jury as the park operator.
$58,688 spentThe diane woest fellowship - the diane woest fellowship is awared to scholars pursuing research projects in louisiana history that utilize in part holdings at the historic new orleans collection. In fy 2024 fellowship payments were made to julia berner, jonathan lande, and ann tran.
$1,500 spentKemper williams prize - the williams prize is awarded each year to the author of the best published work on louisiana history. The recipient was john k. Bardes.
$12,000 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $440M to $542M (+23%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Daniel Hammer
President/CEO
Board chair
Bonnie Boyd
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $19k → $35k.
8 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 66% · 2021 56% · 2022 50% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $405k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $935k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 452 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 452 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $81k on record.
- Department of the Interior$73k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$8k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN?
- KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,340,312 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($357,900). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,340,312 in grants to KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $357,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing