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Eye Ear Nose & Throat Foundation

New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-0928511. Reported 17 grants totalling $3,487,635 to 17 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$3,487,635granted, 2024
17organizations funded
$68.1Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Eye Ear Nose & Throat Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $201,990; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $980,272. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 and Up
5 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
New Orleans Speech & Hearing CenterNew Orleans, LA$980,272112024
Tulane Educational FundNew Orleans, LA$892,838112024
Ochsner Clinic FoundationNew Orleans, LA$665,831112024
Daughters of Charity Health ClinicNew Orleans, LA$362,913112024
LSU Health Sciences CenterNew Orleans, LA$201,990112024
Loyola University New OrleansNew Orleans, LA$89,872112024
University of Holy CrossNew Orleans, LA$76,984112024
The Bright SchoolNew Orleans, LA$73,435112024
New Orleans Academy of OpthalmologyNew Orleans, LA$50,000112024
Ozanam InnNew Orleans, LA$25,000112024
YMCAMetairie, LA$25,000112024
Holy Name of Jesus SchoolNew Orleans, LA$10,000112024
Jesuits USA Central & Southern ProvinceSt Louis, MO$10,000112024
St Michael Special SchoolNew Orleans, LA$10,000112024
The Trinity Episcopal SchoolNew Orleans, LA$10,000112024
Wrbh Radio for the BlindNew Orleans, LA$2,500112024
Southern Eye BankMetairie, LA$1,000112024
Plus 52 grants to individuals totalling $9,155,731 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 4 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Housing & Shelter
1 grant

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. Eye Ear Nose & Throat Foundation has 1 of them, worth $99,398. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
New Orleans Speech & Hearing CenterNew Orleans, LA$99,398

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 100% of this one's giving went to organizations in Louisiana. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Louisiana
$3.5M
Missouri
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Greater New Orleans Foundation8 shared recipientsBaptist Community Ministries8 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipientsLouise H Moffett Family Foundation5 shared recipientsEugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Louisiana.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Eye Ear Nose & Throat Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 935 Gravier Street 1360, New Orleans, LA, 70112. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 72-0928511 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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