· Public charity
Agenda for Children
We support children and families by expanding access to essential resources, promoting healthy development and a strong start in life through high-quality early education and care, and strengthening the people, organizations, and systems that support children.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k49 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $5.6M
- $250k+39 grants · $34M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENTINO EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY TOO LLC | $1,734,947 |
| MCMILLIAN'S FIRST STEPS CDC | $1,681,714 |
| THE PRESCHOOL LEARNING CENTER INC | $1,665,688 |
| CHILDREN'S PALACE LEARNING ACADEMY NORTH | $1,611,574 |
| CUDDLY BEAR CDC | $1,462,551 |
| THE PRESCHOOL LEARNING CENTER INC 2 | $1,432,582 |
| CLARA'S LITTLE LAMBS PRESCHOOL ACADEMY | $1,344,095 |
| WILCOX ACADEMY SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS CORP | $1,223,344 |
| SHILOH GARDENS | $1,187,150 |
| CHILDREN'S PALACE LEARNING ACADEMY SOUTH | $1,117,658 |
| HOFFMAN EARLY LEARNING CENTER | $1,059,535 |
| TCA | $913,238 |
| WILCOX ACADEMY OF EARLY LEARNING LLC | $903,359 |
| KIDS OF EXCELLENCE ST CLAUDE | $821,168 |
| WORLD CLASS LEARNING ACADEMY LLC | $799,430 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $11.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
112 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $614k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- PLPreschool Learning Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $7.5M · revenue +420% · 76% of their budget
- RCROYAL CASTLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT5× · 2021–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +35% · 40% of their budget
- KOKids of Excellence Learning Center5× · 2021–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +35% · 66% of their budget
Funded once
- SUSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY-BATON ROUGEone grant, 2024 · $63k
- BCBeloved Community Incone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -38%
- AFAGENDA FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +176%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Agenda for Children and the most unlike its peers is Early Partners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 186 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Preschool Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds New Orleans College Preparatory Academie ↗
- Who funds CLARAS LITTLE LAMBS PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROYAL CASTLE CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Kids of Excellence Learning Center ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC DRYADES ST COLORED YOUNG MENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds EARLY PARTNERS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Junior League of New Orleans Inc · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · The Gpoa Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Agenda for Children funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.