· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FAERIE PLAYHOUSE CENTER | $10,000 |
| SHELTER RESOURCES INC | $10,000 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC | $5,225 |
| NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATES FOR GLBT ELDERS (NOAGE) | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of John Burton Harter Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Burton Harter Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Burton Harter Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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