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Private non-operating foundationEIN 237336090Est. 1974-02

KEMPER AND LEILA WILLIAMS FOUNDATION IN

NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

Total Assets

$490.7M

FY 2024

Annual Giving

$72K

FY 2024

Grants Made

5

FY 2024

Avg Grant

$14K

FY 2024

Grant Range

$2K–$59K

Typical

Deadlines

Applications

Programs & Activities

Program 1

$20.0M

The historic new orleans collection1. Major exhibitions - five major exhibitions including: captive state: louisiana and the making of mass incarceration; prospect 6: gesture to home by didier william; unkown sitters; mystery and benevolence: masonic and odd fellows folk art; a vanishing bounty: louisiana's coastal environment and culture. 2. Other exhibitions-eight, including edge of tomorrow: aerial views of louisiana's changing coastline by ben depp; championship memories; french quarter life: people and places in the vieux carr; a mystic brotherhood: fraternal orders of new orleans; history of the french quarter; louisiana sites & citizens; purchased lives: new orleans and the domestic slave trade; paul ninas mural 3. Offsite/traveling exhibitions- two, the trail they blazed; purchased lives: new orleans and the domestic slave trade 4. Programs - public programs and events were presented in connection with exhibitions throughout the year for (continued as a 990-pf footnote)

Program 2

$59K

St. Mary parish police jury f/b/o the kemper williams park - the kemper and leila williams foundation provides financial assistance to operate the kemper williams park servinc residents of st. Mary parish and the surrounding area. Construction and operation of the park were provided for in the wills of kemper and leila williams and accomplished through an act of donation on july 26, 1978. Monies are paid semi-annually to the st. Mary parish police jury as the park operator.

Program 3

$2K

The diane woest fellowship - the diane woest fellowship is awared to scholars pursuing research projects in louisiana history that utilize in part holdings at the historic new orleans collection. In fy 2024 fellowship payments were made to julia berner, jonathan lande, and ann tran.

Program 4

$12K

Kemper williams prize - the williams prize is awarded each year to the author of the best published work on louisiana history. The recipient was john k. Bardes.

Focus Areas

Private Operating Foundations

Financial Snapshot

2024 filing

Total Revenue

$29.7M

Total Expenses

$22.0M

Qualifying Distributions

$26.5M

Min. Investment Return

$22.9M

Grant Range

5 grants

Grant sizes from minimum $2K through median $4K to maximum $59K, shown on a logarithmic scale.

Logarithmic scale — typical grant portfolios span orders of magnitude, so distances are proportional to multiplicative change, not dollar gaps.

Giving Over Time

4 years

Giving over time from 2020 to 2024. Peak $72K in 2024. Hover bars for details.

Total dollars recorded per filing year. Scale adjusts to the foundation's range.

Top Recipients

17 grants

ST MARY PARISH POLICE JURY
$93K
3 grants
ST MARY PARISH POLICE
$59K
1 grant
ANN NGOC TRAN
$4K
1 grant
JULIA BERNIER
$4K
1 grant
JONATHAN LANDE
$4K
1 grant
AURELIE GODET
$4K
1 grant
ELIZABETH ROUGET
$4K
1 grant
BENJAMIN GROTH
$4K
1 grant

Grant Size Distribution

17 grants

<$10K
13
grants
$10–50K
3
grants
$50–250K
1
grants
$250K–1M
$1–5M
$5M+

Geographic Focus

8 states

Louisiana
$169K
87% of total
California
$8K
4% of total
Pennsylvania
$4K
2% of total
New Jersey
$4K
2% of total
Connecticut
$4K
2% of total
Rhode Island
$2K
1% of total
Florida
$2K
1% of total
Maryland
$2K
1% of total

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