Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in Louisiana

These 75 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in Louisiana that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

75grantmaking charities
$1.8Bgranted between them
8,166funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
The Greater New Orleans FoundationNew Orleans$21,207997$131.5M
Baton Rouge Area FoundationBaton Rouge$23,117638$113.9M
Community Foundation of AcadianaLafayette$16,621521$55.4M
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater NewNew Orleans$47,769399$358.0M
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational FundNew Orleans$14,975288$87.7M
United Way of Southeast LouisianaNew Orleans$30,000264$22.5M
Community Foundation of North LouisianaShreveport$19,000259$38.4M
Ochsner Clinic FoundationNew Orleans$20,000224$39.7M
Foundation for LouisianaNew Orleans$20,000219$12.5M
New Orleans Community Support FoundationNew Orleans$20,000208$8.3M
Jewish Endowment FoundationMetairie$15,000190$20.2M
4POINT0 SchoolsNew Orleans$10,000188$2.3M
Agenda for ChildrenNew Orleans$53,375186$98.4M
Community Foundation of SouthwestLake Charles$15,000180$13.0M
Northshore Community FoundationCovington$13,925159$11.1M
Keep Louisiana Beautiful FoundationincMandeville$7,894153$1.5M
National Network of Public HealthNew Orleans$59,946151$50.1M
National Performance Network IncNew Orleans$10,055138$3.9M
Capital Area United WayBaton Rouge$45,000124$17.1M
Louisiana Endowment for the HumanitiesNew Orleans$10,000122$2.2M
The Food Bank of Central LouisianaAlexandria$44,138120$34.4M
Lha FoundationBaton Rouge$16,603100$3.7M
Bayou Community FoundationHouma$10,00099$6.2M
Louisiana Rural Health CollectiveCottonport$10,00087$1.7M
The Credit Bureau ofBaton Rouge$20,00085$5.6M
The St Bernard Project IncNew Orleans$60,00082$12.6M
Catholic Foundation of South LouisianaSchriever$11,24082$6.6M
IgivecatholicNew Orleans$50,07881$27.4M
Pro Bono Publico FoundationNew Orleans$15,00076$4.1M
Forekids Foundations IncAvondale$10,00072$7.1M
Louisiana Bar FoundationNew Orleans$50,00066$49.5M
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital IncBaton Rouge$12,11066$107.3M
Willis-Knighton Medical CenterShreveport$25,00063$14.6M
William C Schumacher Family FoundationLafayette$25,00056$9.6M
Argent FoundationRuston$12,00055$2.7M
Living Well FoundationWest Monroe$15,00054$3.4M
The Rapides FoundationAlexandria$100,00051$52.8M
Childrens Coalition for Northeast LouisianaMonroe$9,11751$1.4M
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage FestivalNew Orleans$15,00050$4.7M
Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana IncMonroe$68,27450$7.8M
New Schools for New Orleans IncNew Orleans$57,98448$30.0M
The Emeril Lagasse FoundationNew Orleans$43,92546$6.0M
New Orleans Theatre Association IncNew Orleans$15,00045$1.7M
The Ej and Marjory B Ourso FamilyDonaldsonville$10,00045$1.2M
New Schools for Baton RougeBaton Rouge$76,61143$27.8M
Arts Council of New OrleansNew Orleans$11,53643$520K
United Way of Acadiana IncLafayette$17,90042$2.4M
Junior League of New Orleans IncNew Orleans$8,51641$716K
United Way of Southwest Louisiana IncLake Charles$25,82839$4.9M
Methodist Health System Foundation IncSlidell$60,00039$6.3M
Rotary Club of Baton Rouge FoundationBaton Rouge$10,00038$484K
Marketing Education Retail Alliance IncGreenwell Springs$9,07538$1.2M
Unity of Greater New Orleans IncNew Orleans$355,59936$99.8M
United Way of St CharlesBoutte$28,38034$6.7M
Louisiana Public Health InstituteNew Orleans$10,00033$700K
Mayor's Healthy City InitiativeBaton Rouge$37,50030$3.0M
Children's Hospital IncNew Orleans$36,56130$72.8M
United Way of Northeast Louisiana IncMonroe$41,16730$5.7M
Power Coalition for Equity and JusticeNew Orleans$21,87530$1.3M
Woman's Hospital FoundationBaton Rouge$11,09729$6.5M
United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana IncBaton Rouge$20,00028$3.8M
Mystic Krewe for the Preservation of Lagniappe in LouisianaBaton Rouge$3,55028$333K
Greater New Orleans DevelopmentNew Orleans$52,67526$4.9M
Video Veracity IncNew Orleans$30,36026$2.4M
Xavier University of LouisianaNew Orleans$36,00025$5.2M
United Way for South LouisianaHouma$24,58525$2.2M
Healthy GulfNew Orleans$20,00025$734K
Christus Health Northern LouisianaShreveport$61,68823$15.9M
St John United WayReserve$18,00022$2.0M
Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center IncBaton Rouge$15,00022$2.8M
Lamar Dixon Expo FoundationPrairieville$7,00021$223K
Baton Rouge Alliance for StudentsBaton Rouge$12,00021$532K
Taproot EarthSlidell$83,33321$6.8M
YWCA of Greater Baton RougeBaton Rouge$10,00020$372K
Jrf OutreachMonroe$15,00020$394K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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