The Emeril Lagasse Foundation
New Orleans, LA · EIN 42-1536915. Reported 88 grants totalling $5,973,814 to 46 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Emeril Lagasse Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30).
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 62% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $43,925. Half of what it reported fell between $21,250 and $75,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $540,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Education Inc | Wilmington, NC | $540,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Academy for Global Citizenship Charter School | Chicago, IL | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Baltimore Montessori Inc | Baltimore, MD | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute Inc | New Orleans, LA | $420,596 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cafe Hope Inc | Gretna, LA | $275,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sinfonia Gulf Coast Inc | Miramar Beach, FL | $271,233 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Alaqua Animal Refuge Inc | Freeport, FL | $266,595 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Son of a Saint | New Orleans, LA | $253,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Illinois Restaurant Association Educational Foundation Inc | Chicago, IL | $230,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | New Orleans, LA | $225,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Arc Broward Inc | Sunrise, FL | $204,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emerald Coast Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | Niceville, FL | $195,042 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Food for Thought Outreach Inc | Santa Rsa Bch, FL | $169,052 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Dan Marino Foundation Inc | Fort Lauderdale, FL | $159,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Reconcile New Orleans Inc | New Orleans, LA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ingram Lee Foundation | Houston, TX | $141,923 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Youth Empowerment Project | New Orleans, LA | $140,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Covenant House New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $107,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Partners for Education Agriculture and Sustainability | Austin, TX | $107,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $103,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Life Lab Science Program | Santa Cruz, CA | $95,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute of Culinary Education | New York, NY | $89,661 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samueli Academy | Santa Ana, CA | $84,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Libertys Kitchen | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Belle Chasse Academy Inc | Belle Chasse, LA | $66,875 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Adopt the Arts Foundation | Agoura Hills, CA | $63,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hispanic Federation Inc | New York, NY | $59,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Do It for the Love | Oakland, CA | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Public Education Foundation | Austin, TX | $52,180 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Orange County School of the Arts Foundation | Santa Ana, CA | $48,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Restaurant Association Inc | Metairie, LA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eco Center Inc | San Juan Capo, CA | $36,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Watering Hole Foundation Inc | New Orleans, LA | $36,250 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Matrix Community Outreach Center Inc | Defuniak Springs, FL | $33,333 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Education Foundation of the Louisiana Restaurant Assoc Inc | Metairie, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation Inc | Destin, FL | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Troy Andrews Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pilot Light | Chicago, IL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edible Education Experience Inc | Orlando, FL | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends Of@discovery Health Sciences Foundation Inc | Kenner, LA | $11,875 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pajaro Valley Unified School District | Watsonville, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hooptee Charities Inc | Matthews, NC | $9,999 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Michael Special School | New Orleans, LA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoma County Vintners Foundation | Santa Rosa, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Firstline Schools Inc | New Orleans, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hospitality Charitable Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
20 of 46 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Glow Nc
CULINARY AND NUTRITION EDUCATION - Adopt the Arts Foundation
CHILDREN'S MUSIC EDUCATION - Orange County School of the Arts Foundation
CULTURAL AND ARTS ENRICHMENT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 42 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $453,699 | $23,125 |
| 2022 | 29 | $2,841,946 | $75,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $1,466,284 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 24 | $1,211,885 | $32,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
33% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
20 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 46 grants totalling $2,218,197 to The Emeril Lagasse Foundation. That is 56% of the 36 funders we can see giving to it. Those 20 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
10 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living Legacy Foundation | Tennessee | $608,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Stanley E Hanson Foundation | California | $475,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| DSK3 Family Foundation | California | $320,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Chuck and Ernestina Kreutzkamp | California | $310,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Confluence Foundation | Minnesota | $110,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Karian Family Foundation Inc | Florida | $79,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ella Marie Foundation | Florida | $68,600 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Republic National Distributing Company | California | $68,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Benz Family Foundation | Delaware | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Zachary Woodard Foundation | Florida | $44,400 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 20.
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Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $43,925 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Emeril Lagasse Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 29 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 3801 Canal St 300, New Orleans, LA, 70119.
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