Methodist Health System Foundation Inc
Slidell, LA · EIN 72-1003934. Reported 89 grants totalling $6,273,148 to 39 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 57% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $60,000. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $99,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $200,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana | New Orleans, LA | $445,480 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| 18TH Ward | New Orleans, LA | $425,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Covenant House New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $365,180 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Son of a Saint | New Orleans, LA | $356,890 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ozanam Inn | New Orleans, LA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Inc | New Orleans, LA | $340,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Lukes House - a Clinic for Healing and Hope | New Orleans, LA | $300,300 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of the Gulf South Inc | New Orleans, LA | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| New Orleans Mission Inc | New Orleans, LA | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bastion Community of Resilience | New Orleans, LA | $240,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Youth Empowerment Project | New Orleans, LA | $215,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Health & Education Alliance of Louisiana | Metairie, LA | $199,280 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Via Link Inc | Covington, LA | $158,349 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bayou District Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marillac Community Health Centers | New Orleans, LA | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Split Second Foundation Inc | New Orleans, LA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Hotel Hope | New Orleans, LA | $142,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Start Corporation | Houma, LA | $141,536 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eden Centers | New Orleans, LA | $130,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Volunteers of America Inc | New Orleans, LA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation Inc | Metairie, LA | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Good Shepherd Nativity Mission School Inc | New Orleans, LA | $100,293 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United Way of Southeast Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| St Thomas Community Health Center Inc | New Orleans, LA | $99,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ochsner Clinic Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $98,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Crescentcare Holdings Inc | New Orleans, LA | $92,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of New Orleans Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $86,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Louisiana Center for Childrens Rights | New Orleans, LA | $85,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Travelers Aid Society of Greater New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation | Hammond, LA | $73,600 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Giving Hope Inc | New Orleans, LA | $53,540 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Orleans Family Justice Alliance Inc | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Holy Cross | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| LSU Health Foundation New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Direct Relief | Santa Barbara, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Nonprofit Knowledge Works Inc | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Blood Center Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
26 of 39 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION WITH THEIR THERAPEUTIC FOOD PANTRY. - Covenant House New Orleans
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION'S RIGHTS OF PASSAGE PROGRAM: A UNIVERSITY FOR STREET KIDS PROGRAM - Health & Education Alliance of Lousisiana
TO ASSIST WITH THE ORGANIZATION'S COORDINATED CARE FOR THE WHOLE CHILD PROGRAM. - Communities in Schools of Greater New Orleans
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION WITH SUPPORTING AT-RISK STUDENTS WITH CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES. - Son of a Saint
691 - 10/18/21 02:38PM WORKSHEET SCHEDULE I - Louisiana Center for Children's Rights
TO ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN WITH ITS JUVENILE PUBLIC DEFENDERS PROGRAM.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 35 of 39 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 17 | $1,193,385 | $60,000 |
| 2021 | 14 | $1,050,478 | $66,800 |
| 2022 | 17 | $1,440,887 | $67,308 |
| 2023 | 20 | $1,438,152 | $60,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $1,150,246 | $50,000 |
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
99% 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.
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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 the strongest signal available 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.
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 $60,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Methodist Health System Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 360 Oak Harbor Blvd, Slidell, LA, 70458.
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