A museum gallery with a large landscape painting in a gilt frame

Grant recipient EIN 26-3471054Arts and culture

Who funds Sankofa Community Development Corporation?

8 private foundations gave Sankofa Community Development Corporation in New Orleans, LA $3.4 million across 22 grants, in tax years 2017 to 2024.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2017 to 2024, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

22 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2024

    General operating support

    $250,000
  2. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2024

    Food, Strong and Equitable Food Systems

    $175,000
  3. Baptist Community MinistriesNew Orleans, LA 2024

    K20 - hurricane katrina 20th anniversary

    $40,000
  4. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2023

    Health and Health Equity

    $200,000
  5. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2023

    To facilitate the development of a new three-to-five year organizational strategic plan.

    $75,000
  6. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2022

    Implementation of the sankofa lower ninth economic advancement and development (lead) project

    $400,000
  7. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2022

    provide general operating support to help the organization advance its mission of ensuring New Orleans' Ninth Ward is a self-sustaining, viable community, whose residents have access to arts and cultural resources, local healthy food, economic development, and intergenerational continuity

    $200,000
  8. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2022

    To facilitate the development of a new three-to-five year organizational strategic plan.

    $60,000
  9. The Rockefeller FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    For general support of its mission

    $25,000
  10. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana FoundationBaton Rouge, LA 2022

    Sankofa snap enrollment project

    $25,000
  11. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2021

    Implementation of the sankofa lower ninth economic advancement and development (lead) project

    $800,000
  12. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2021

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of building healthier communities for generations to come by providing general operating support

    $200,000
  13. Motorola Solutions FoundationChicago, IL 2021

    General Operating Support

    $25,000
  14. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2020

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of building healthier communities for generations to come by providing general operating support

    $200,000
  15. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2020

    To advance social and economic mobility in new orleans by resourcing sankofa CDC to lead resident-centered neighborhood development activities in the lower ninth ward.

    $100,000
  16. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2020

    To enhance expanding health, wellness and cultural programs in the lower ninth ward as part of the fresh, local and equitable initiative.

    $20,000
  17. Gives Sunset fka Depcom GivesScottsdale, AZ 2020

    Public support

    $10,000
  18. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2019

    To enhance expanding health, wellness and cultural programs in the lower ninth ward as part of the fresh, local and equitable initiative.

    $100,000
  19. AstraZeneca Foundation (fka AstraZeneca Healthcare Foundation)Wilmington, DE 2019

    Program support - Healthy HeartBeats

    $50,000
  20. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2018

    To enhance expanding health, wellness and cultural programs in the lower ninth ward as part of the fresh, local and equitable initiative.

    $100,000
  21. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2018

    enable the organization to achieve its mission of building healthier communities for generations to come by providing general operating support

    $100,000
  22. WK Kellogg FoundationBattle Creek, MI 2017

    improve healthy living opportunities for children and families by developing a community-based food hub that builds healthier food systems and provides direct access to whole foods in order to improve the built environment in a designated New Orleans, Louisiana, area food desert

    $195,850

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other arts and culture organizations in New Orleans, LA and are not among Sankofa Community Development Corporation’s funders above.

  1. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 264 grants Preselected only $20,390 to similar organizations
  2. Shell USA Company FoundationHouston, TX 114 grants Preselected only $143,153 to similar organizations
  3. Goldring Family FoundationMetairie, LA 61 grants Accepts applications $723,500 to similar organizations
  4. Keller Family FoundationNew Orleans, LA 28 grants Accepts applications $236,000 to similar organizations
  5. The Helis FoundationNew Orleans, LA 75 grants Accepts applications $7,142,960 to similar organizations
  6. Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family FoundationNew Orleans, LA 34 grants Accepts applications $697,800 to similar organizations
  7. Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable FoundationMetairie, LA 42 grants Accepts applications $1,837,739 to similar organizations
  8. Cahn Family FoundationNew Orleans, LA 67 grants Preselected only $389,000 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 26-3471054 by name and ZIP code against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.