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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).

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MPhilanthropy$868kYouth Development$788kCommunity Improvement$666kEducation$661kCrime & Legal$533kHuman Services$398kEnvironment$379kOther$0
02FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 64 grants below total $1,131,947, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,501,036 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $369,089 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $880k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $179k
$12,850
Median grant
1
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LAKEVIEW SHEPHERD CENTER$30,000
YOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS$30,000
NOLA TREE PROJECT$27,000
WATER WISE GULF SOUTH$25,635
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$25,000
UNCHAINED REALITIES$25,000
THRIVE NEW ORLEANS$24,988
START CORPORATION$20,000
BE NOLA (BLACK EDUCATION FOR NEW ORLEANS)$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%GIVING HOPE INC: $30k → 23%STEP FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $10k → 15%STEP FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 23%OUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ: $10k → 23%THE BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $10k → 23%RAPHAEL VILLAGE: $10k → 23%CLOVER NOLA INC: $8k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70k → 23%GULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $70k → 23%CENTRAL CITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION: $60k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $25k → 23%FEED THE SECOND LINE: $25k → 23%LAKEVIEW SHEPHERD CENTER: $30k → 23%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 23%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $30k → 23%THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%UBUNTU VILLAGE: $40k → 23%UBUNTU VILLAGE: $20k → 23%START CORPORATION: $20k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $10k → 23%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES NOLA: $15k → 23%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES NOLA: $5k → 23%THE FIRST 72RISING FOUNDATIONS: $100k → 23%HEALTHY COMMUNITY RESOURCES & ADVOCACY: $25k → 23%HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS: $20k → 23%BOYS TOWN LOUISIANA: $13k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 36 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
144

Total granted

$1.8M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+9%

Still filing today

97%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • 1W
    18TH WARD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $86k · revenue +200%
  • VI
    Vietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +70%
  • RN
    RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • MA
    MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $123k · revenue +84% · 62% of their budget
  • TF
    The First 72graduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +77%
  • SO
    SON OF A SAINT
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -10%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Lede New Orleans Inc

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…

Education
2
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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3
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…

—
4
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
5
Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

Arts & Culture
6
Together Louisiana

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…

Public Benefit
7
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
8
New Orleans Sponsoring Committee -Together New Orleans

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.

Community Improvement
9
Nola Business Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
10
Friends of Codeys Nola

Dedicated to empowering food on entrepreneurs on their journey to scale by building bridges to education, collaboration, and capital.

Food & Nutrition
11
Batiste Organization

Our mission is to empower young women in New Orleans thought education and inspiration.

Employment
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Impact Ministries; 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.
04the grantee network

183 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. 183 of the 208 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.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
178/183
Grantees still filing
90/183
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $122,500 · Arts & CultureMUSIC AND CULTURE CO…Roots of Music Inc: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music IncTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH…SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSANKOFA COMMUNITY DE…LOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $66,000 · Arts & CultureETERNAL SEEDS INC: $64,870 · Arts & CultureCULTURE AID NOLA: $62,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ART CULTURE AND HISTORY: $53,000 · Arts & CultureANTHONY BEAN COMMUNITY THEATER AND ACTING SCHOOL: $52,500 · Arts & Culture+34 more: $650,250 · Arts & Culture+34 moreNEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $100,000 · Other+79 more: $2,462,570 · Other+79 moreThe First 72: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe First 72NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS …GULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesGULF COAST H…Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation: $60,000 · Human ServicesCentral City…UBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA: $59,500 · Human ServicesUBUNTU VILLA…THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $54,988 · Human ServicesTHRIVE NEW O…NEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS …Arins Nesting Place: $40,000 · Human ServicesStep Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesLAKEVIEW SHEPHERD CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesGiving Hope Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+14 more: $218,045 · Human Services+14 moreTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $642,388 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER …UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY O…SAULS LIGHT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySON OF A SAINT: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A S…HEROES OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEROES OF …CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR…SILVERBACK SOCIETY: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVERBACK…DAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION: $83,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAUGHTERS …RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentRECONCILE …ZULU COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentZULU COMMU…REACHING FOR THE STARS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $60,000 · Youth Development+4 moreSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationSOUTHERN …LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC: $60,000 · EducationLEONA TAT…ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationST AUGUST…NEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC: $40,000 · EducationNEW ORLEA…DILLARD UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationDILLARD U…NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $35,000 · EducationNEW ORLEA…THE EINSTEIN GROUP INC: $35,000 · EducationTHE EINST…WESTBANK QUES (GAMMA RHO) FOUNDATION INC WESTBANK QUES FOUNDATION INC: $28,000 · EducationBe Loud Studios: $25,000 · EducationGeneration Success: $25,000 · EducationCORPORATE INTERNSHIP LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $22,500 · EducationBenola Inc: $20,000 · Education+13 more: $140,000 · Education+13 moreUNCHAINED REALITIES INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementVietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train: $75,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: $51,500 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT UNLIMITED: $50,000 · Community ImprovementF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGentilly Festival Inc: $40,000 · Community ImprovementDISTRICT 2 COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementBeloved Community Inc: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBROAD COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS INC: $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$1,346,620Other$2,662,570Human Services$817,533Philanthropy$782,388Youth Development$683,000Education$595,500Community Improvement$458,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $642,388 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMUSIC AND CULTURE COALITION OF NEW ORLEANS NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $122,500 over 1y, 62% of budgetThe First 72: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHEROES OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNCHAINED REALITIES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetSILVERBACK SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budget18TH WARD: $86,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION: $83,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AT NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetSANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS: $75,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetlowernineorg: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetVietnamese Initiatives in Economic Train: $75,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetDIRECTED INITIATIVES FOR YOUTH INC EXCITE ALL STARS: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLES HOUSING INC: $70,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $66,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCULTIVATING YOUTH: $65,000 over 1y, 59% of budgetETERNAL SEEDS INC: $64,870 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCULTURE AID NOLA: $62,500 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetUP2US INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL: $60,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetRECIRCULATING FARMS COALITION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCentral City Economic Opportunity Corporation: $60,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $60,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetUBUNTU VILLAGE NOLA: $59,500 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMON GROUND RELIEF INC: $57,850 over 2y, 20% of budgetWATER WISE GULF SOUTH: $55,135 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetTHE SPLIT SECOND FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $54,988 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF ART CULTURE AND HISTORY: $53,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetANTHONY BEAN COMMUNITY THEATER AND ACTING SCHOOL: $52,500 over 2y, 38% of budgetFriends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: $51,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN IMPACT MINISTRIES: $50,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: $50,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetSEXUAL TRAUMA AWARENESS & RESPONSE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…The Gpoa FoundationFoundation for Louisi…Goldring Family Found…Keller Family Foundat…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Entergy Charitable Fo…Second Harvest Food B…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Ochsner Clinic Founda…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA190.8× affinity127 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 New Orleans Community Support Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Orleans Community Support Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    59report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to New Orleans Community Support Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to New Orleans Community Support Foundation 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 208 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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