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Business Council of New Orleans River Region

The mission of the business council of new orleans & the river region is to serve as a vehicle for business leaders to speak with one principled voice in advocating for a fiscal and public policy environment that invites and sustains (continued on schedule o) economic growth and provides a better quality of life for all who live and work…

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Public Benefit$183kCrime & Legal$74kCivil Rights$43kCommunity Improvement$28kPhilanthropy$20kEducation$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $205,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,671 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,671 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION$150,000
NEW ORLEANS POLICE & JUSTICE FOUNDATION$35,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Urban League of Louisiana: $10k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nola Business Alliance

Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…

Community Improvement
2
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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3
Orleans Sheriff's Office Foundation
Crime & Legal
4
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
5
Central Louisiana Urban Businesses-Cares

To train and coach existing and inspirin

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6
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
7
Lede New Orleans Inc

Lede New Orleans is a community media hub that trains emerging Black and Brown storytellers,produces community-centered journalism, and creates trusted spaces for civic dialogue.Founded in 2020, Lede works to advance information equity in…

Education
8
North Louisiana Economic Partnership Inc

Economic development activities for north louisiana. the north louisiana economic partnership works to ensure that companies identify north louisiana as a desirable business location and encourages capital investment and job creation by…

Community Improvement
9
University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…

Health
10
University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
11
New Orleans Scottish Rite Foundatio
Arts & Culture
12
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Community Support Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Executive Development Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATIONEXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $5,750 · Public Safety & DisasterNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $74,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND…BUILDING A BETTER NEW ORLEANS: $42,600 · OtherBUILDING A BETT…CITIZENS FOR ONE GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $7,500 · OtherCITIZENS FOR ON…THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $8,000 · PhilanthropyPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25,000 · Public BenefitSt Bernard Economic Development Foundat: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNORBCC INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $10,000 · Human ServicesST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Public Safety & Disaster$155,750Crime & Legal$74,000Other$50,100Philanthropy$28,000Public Benefit$25,000Community Improvement$17,500Human Services$10,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC: $74,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt Bernard Economic Development Foundat: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORBCC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ochsner Clinic Founda…United Way of Southea…The Greater New Orlea…Amazonsmile Foundation
Ochsner Clinic FoundationLA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ochsner Clinic Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Business Council of New Orleans River Region funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Business Council of New Orleans River Region. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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