· Public charity
New Orleans Community Support Foundation
The NEW ORLEANS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOUNDATION was organized specifically for the benefit of the greater new orleans foundation (gnof), a nonprofit organization exempt under 501(c)(3).
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 64 grants below total $1,131,947 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,501,036 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $369,089 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $880k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION | $114,529 |
| ETERNAL SEEDS | $64,870 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA SE LOUISIANA COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| GROUNDWORK NEW ORLEANS | $34,700 |
| FESTIVALS FOR GOOD | $33,750 |
| CELEBRATION CHURCH LIFE TRANSFORMATION COMMUNITY CENTER | $32,500 |
| YOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS | $30,000 |
| LAKEVIEW SHEPHERD CENTER | $30,000 |
| NOLA TREE PROJECT | $27,000 |
| WATER WISE GULF SOUTH | $25,635 |
| UNCHAINED REALITIES | $25,000 |
| YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT | $25,000 |
| THRIVE NEW ORLEANS | $24,988 |
| BE NOLA (BLACK EDUCATION FOR NEW ORLEANS) | $20,000 |
| START CORPORATION | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $775k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 99% of those 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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
- 1W18TH WARD2× · 2023–2024 · $86k · revenue +200%
- VIVietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +70%
- RNRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- MAMUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue +84% · 62% of their budget
- RORoots of Music Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +45%
- SSSILVERBACK SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +113% · 44% of their budget
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.
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…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
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…
VAYLA supports youth leaders and college students that want to engage and empower their communities through storytelling.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.
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…
The mission of Together New Orleans TNO is to give faith and community based organizations an opportunity to develop the leadership capacity of their members and affect change on a larger scale thank they could alone.
The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands On New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
183 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. 183 of the 208 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Roots of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds SILVERBACK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds HEROES OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds The First 72 ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNCHAINED REALITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds 18TH WARD ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION ↗
- Who funds SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds lowernineorg ↗
- Who funds Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train ↗
- Who funds DIRECTED INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC EXCITE ALL STARS ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL SEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURE AID NOLA ↗
- Who funds RECIRCULATING FARMS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation ↗
- Who funds UP2US INC ↗
- Who funds LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds Sustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL ↗
- Who funds UBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds WATER WISE GULF SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE NEW ORLEANS ↗
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 · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Gpoa Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Goldring Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Ochsner Clinic 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 New Orleans Community Support 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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