How much did FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS grant in FY2021?

Public Safety & Disaster$600kCivil Rights$220kHousing & Shelter$153kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$8kEducation$7kArts & Culture$7kOther$121k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k3 grants · $62k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$23,821

Median grant

States reached

$968k

Total assets

Largest grants

NORD FOUNDATION$50,000
DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES$25,000
LOUISIANA FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER$23,821
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTH LOUISIANA$13,000
COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS$6,500

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23% — the area typically sits at 22%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy

Immigration Legal Services and Advocacy (ISLA) provides direct representation to indigent detained immigrants throughout Louisiana on a pro bono basis and under a universal representation model. ISLA provides information to the public to…

Crime & Legal

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

A Legacy of Equality Leadership and Organizing

LELO strives to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities, in the U.S. and across…

Crime & Legal

Inquilinos Unidos

Dedicated to empowering low-income tenants through community organizing, education and advocacy to fight for safe, decent and affordable housing in Los Angeles.

Unclassified

Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation

Promote and develop economic opportunity to those in need of increased ecomonic opportunity; to promote the education and welfare of the people of the community; and to form special interest groups as it deems necessary to solve special…

Human Services

New Orleans Youth Alliance

NOYA is a local youth development intermediary in New Orleans. Its mission is to foster youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development organizations with the intent to drive the…

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Los Angeles Black Worker Center

The mission of the Los Angeles Black Worker Center is to increase access to quality jobs, reduce employment discrimination, and improve industries that employ black workers through action and unionization.

Employment

The Arc of Greater New Orleans

Arc of Greater New Orleans is committed to securing for all people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to develop, function, and live to their fullest potential

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Cenla Community Action Committee Inc

To alleviate immediate suffering caused by poverty and to stop the cycle of poverty to make Rapides Parish citizens self-sufficient.

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The Literacy Council of Southwest La

The Literacy Council of Southwest LA is a community-based, non-profit organization that provides instructional programs to improve educational skill levels in Southwest Louisiana and works to increase public awareness of literacy related…

Education

Housing Rights Committee of

The Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco is dedicated to combating the displacement crisis gripping our city by building the power of working-class tenants of color to take on the real estate industry and win housing justice for all.…

Education

Cooperation L a

The L.A. Co-op Lab is a collective that worker ownership in Los Angeles as a pathway toward a more equitable and democratic economy.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Workers Ctr for Racial Justice and the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

7/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Public Safety & Disaster$600,000Civil Rights$220,251Housing & Shelter$152,906Other$134,028Recreation & Sports$50,000Human Services$11,000Community Improvement$7,500

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA26.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · The Kresge Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 organisation FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESILIENCE FORCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 845151214 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RESILIENCE FORCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Forward Together New Orleans?

Find your warmest path to Forward Together New Orleans through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Forward Together New Orleans?

More from the funding graph

FORWARD TOGETHER NEW ORLEANS

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Forward Together New Orleans?

More from the funding graph