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· Public charity

Forward Together New Orleans

People matter.

$298k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Public Safety & Disaster$600kHousing & Shelter$436kRecreation & Sports$50kReligion$25kHuman Services$24kPhilanthropy$13kCommunity Improvement$8kCrime & Legal$7kOther$0
02FY2021 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $118,321, the rows itemized in this filing. The $298,097 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $179,776 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$23,821
Median grant
1
States reached
$968k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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 (FY20–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 22%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 22%OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ: $6k → 23%EN-HACORE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ORIENTATIONS (ECCO): $6k → 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.

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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
2
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
3
Cooperation L a

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

Arts & Culture
4
New Orleans Youth Alliance

Guided by our community and grounded in racial equity intersectional equity and youth leadership New Orleans Youth Alliance fosters youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development…

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5
Central City Renaissance Alliance

To honor and support the collective voice and collaborative strength of Central City (New Orleans) residents as we create neighborhoods that are powerful and economically vibrant. We are committed to the revitalization and transformation…

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6
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
7
Greater New Orleans Housing Alliance

The Greater New Orleans Housing Alliances GNOHA mission is to collaborate and support member efforts to build affordable housing for the residents of the Greater New Orleans area in an ethical and efficient manner.

Public Benefit
8
Fuerza LaboralPower of Workers

Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…

Education
9
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
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
11
National Housing and Community Development Law Project

The Organization is a national housing and legal advocacy center. Its mission is to advance housing justice for poor people by: increasing and preserving the supply of decent, affordable housing; improving existing housing conditions,…

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Workers Ctr for Racial Justice; the most unlike its peers is En-Hacore Community Center and Orientations (Ecco). 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESILIENCE FORCE: $600,000 · Public Safety & DisasterRESILIENCE FORCELouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $213,501 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housin…+1 more: $6,750 · Civil RightsGUSTE HOMES RESIDENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $152,906 · Housing & ShelterGUSTE HOMES RE…CJ PEETE LLC: $41,354 · OtherCJ PEETE LLCDIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX AND CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $25,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF H…BW COOPER PHASE I HANO LLC: $17,638 · OtherBW COOPER PH…United Way for South Louisiana: $13,000 · OtherUnited Way f…MBS BW COOPER IB LLC: $10,786 · OtherMBS BW COOPE…ASOCIACIACION DE FAMILIAS UNIDAS EN ACCION: $7,500 · OtherASOCIACIACIO…EL PUEBLO NOLA - NOLA VILLAGE: $5,500 · OtherFREE ALAS: $6,750 · OtherCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS: $6,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsOUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ: $5,500 · Human ServicesEN-HACORE COMMUNITY CENTER AND ORIENTATIONS (ECCO): $5,500 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Public Safety & Disaster$600,000Civil Rights$220,251Housing & Shelter$152,906Other$134,028Recreation & Sports$50,000Human Services$11,000Community Improvement$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESILIENCE FORCE: $600,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $213,501 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetGUSTE HOMES RESIDENT MANAGEMENT CORPORATION: $152,906 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetUnited Way for South Louisiana: $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNew Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice: $6,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS: $6,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Foundation for Louisi…The Kresge FoundationWK Kellogg FoundationNew Orleans Community…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · The Kresge Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · New Orleans Community Support 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 Forward Together New Orleans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Forward Together New Orleans. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
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    How do I get to Forward Together New Orleans?

    Find your warmest path to Forward Together New Orleans through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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