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John Burton Harter Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LGBT ARCHIVES PROJECT OF LOUISIANA | $17,500 |
| TENNESSEE WILLIAMSNEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVAL | $15,000 |
| NO AIDS TASK FORCE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SHELTER RESOURCES INC | $10,000 |
| FAERIE PLAYHOUSE CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $5,225 |
| NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATES FOR GLBT ELDERS (NOAGE) | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of John Burton Harter Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TWTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +36%
- NTNOAIDS TASK FORCE4× · 2020–2025 · $92k · revenue +57%
- TLTHE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART4× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FMFAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVEone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -2% · 67% of their budget
- LSLOUISIANA STATE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $9k
- SASANCTUARY ARTS SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
Celebrate cultures of lgbtq+ people
Heart of Leather is a foundation dedicated to the protection and sharing of LGBTQIA+ history.
The Out Arts and Culture is committed to promoting awareness of the diversity of experiences contributions and needs of people who are lesbian gay bisexual transgender and or queer.
Ohio Lesbian Archives was organized as an educational organization that preserves the history of the lives of Ohio lesbians and their struggle for civil, social, and economic equality. It collects, preserves, and share materials from…
The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.
The New Orleans Festival, Inc., is dedicated to serving the New Orleans community and the art of poetry by putting on a yearly festival celebrating poetry in all its forms, including sponsoring performances by visiting poets from around…
The New Orleans Pride Center is a welcome, inclusive hub for local and regional LGBTQ2IA and allied individuals and communities where all feel safe to celebrate their authentic selves and thrive through connection. We operate a physical…
To foster public understanding of the contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community by supporting the creation, public presentation, and social engagement programming of interdisciplinary artwork that examines the rich diversity of queer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and the most unlike its peers is Tom of Finland Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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 Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival ↗
- Who funds NOAIDS TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF GAY AND LESBIAN ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAULKNER MORGAN ARCHIVE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
- Who funds LGBT ARCHIVES PROJECT OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY ARTS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New Orleans Advocates for GLBT Elders ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
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 · 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 organization John Burton Harter Foundation 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.
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