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· Public charity

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc

To promote, preserve, and encourage the music, culture, and heritage of communities in louisiana through festivals, programs, and other cultural, educational, and economic activities.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$7.7MEducation$512kHealth$500kCommunity Improvement$106k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $1,003,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,528,111 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,524,611 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $346k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$37,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF WWOZ$500,000
NORMAN DIXON 2ND LINE PARADE FUND$100,000
ST TAMMANY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$93,000
FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC$53,000
NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE$50,000
NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS' ASSISTANCE FND$50,000
ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$44,500
JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM$37,500
FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS$16,000
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES$13,000
LAFOURCHE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD$11,000
LAGNIAPPE BAKING CO LLC$8,000
LAFOURCHE PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,000
GUIDRY'S CAKE SHOP INC$7,000
EFFORTS OF GRACE$6,500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 85% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%ST TAMMANY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $93k → 11%ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $45k → 22%NORMAN DIXON FUND: $100k → 23%ST TAMMANY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $76k → 11%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $78k → 15%ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $35k → 22%NORMAN DIXON 2ND LINE PARADE FUND: $100k → 23%ST TAMMANY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $74k → 11%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $76k → 15%ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $34k → 22%NORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND: $100k → 23%ST TAMMANY PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $29k → 11%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $52k → 15%ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $31k → 22%NORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND: $100k → 23%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $47k → 15%ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $29k → 22%NORMAN DIXON FUND: $100k → 23%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $38k → 15%NORMAN DIXON FUND: $75k → 23%JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $19k → 15%NORMAN DIXON FUND: $75k → 23%NORMAN DIXON FUND: $75k → 23%FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $53k → 23%FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $42k → 23%KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $48k → 23%KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $40k → 23%KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $37k → 23%KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $34k → 23%KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $33k → 23%KID SMART: $53k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $100k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS' CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $100k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS' CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC: $75k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC: $75k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS' CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $75k → 23%NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS' ASSISTANCE FND: $50k → 23%NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK: $17k → 23%FRIENDS OF WWOZ: $1.2M → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%NEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $50k → 23%FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS: $18k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 19 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
31

Total granted

$8.4M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+2%

Still filing today

63%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +34%
  • ND
    NORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $725k · revenue +5% · 100% of their budget
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • KS
    KID SMARTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +176%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +483%
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
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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2
Make Music Nola

Make music nola is an intensive music-for-social-change program. themission of make music nola is to promote academic achievement,cultivate artistic expression, and promote the healthy growth anddevelopment of children in new orleans…

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
Louisiana Academy of Production

Louisiana Academy of Production is dedicated to building a more inclusive pipeline of college and career-ready students in Louisiana who are interested in the film, television, and digital media industries.

Education
5
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

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…

Education
6
Renew - Reinventing Education

The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.

Education
7
Lycee Francais De La Nouvelle Orleans

Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.

Education
8
Community Academies of New Orleans Inc

Community academies' mission is to cultivate schools that nurture students' character and critical thinking ability in responsive learning environments, thereby equipping them to be impactful community leaders.

Education
9
Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa

Provide local access to performances by nationally and internationally known artists, associated educational outreach and residency activities and paid performance opportunities for local performing artists

Arts & Culture
10
Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans

The mission of ecole bilingue is to develop globally literate students through a rigorous bilingual french-american curriculum, set in a nurturing and multicultural community. we guide our students to excel academically, foster their…

Education
11
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
12
826 New Orleans

826 new oreans cultivates and supports the voices of young writers ages 6-18 through creative collaborations with schools and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Smart; the most unlike its peers is Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School. 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

26 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. 26 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC: $5,321,869 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF WWOZ INCNORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND: $725,000 · Arts & CultureNORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUNDNEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $450,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION+6 more: $173,870 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS ARTS EDUCATION ALLIANCE: $350,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS ARTS EDU…JEFFERSON PARISH PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM: $323,325 · OtherJEFFERSON PARISH PUB…St Tammany Parish School Board: $287,827 · OtherSt Tammany Parish Sc…ST BERNARD PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $191,500 · OtherST BERNARD PARISH SC…NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS MUSICIAN…LAFOURCHE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $98,500 · OtherLAFOURCHE PARISH SCH…+30 more: $248,500 · Other+30 moreKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $243,500 · EducationCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $78,500 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $75,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $42,000 · EducationCHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $17,235 · Education+5 more: $44,389 · EducationTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$6,670,739Other$1,599,652Education$501,124Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC: $5,321,869 over 7y, 23% of budgetNORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND: $725,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $243,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $78,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $75,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC: $73,370 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC: $42,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNew Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $41,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE: $20,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $17,235 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAntenna: $13,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMondo Bizarro Productions: $13,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetARISE SCHOOLS: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $7,889 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEFFORTS OF GRACE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WWOZ INC ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds KID SMART ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
  • Who funds New Orleans College Preparatory Academie ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds CHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Antenna ↗
  • Who funds Mondo Bizarro Productions ↗
  • Who funds ARISE SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds ALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTHONY BEAN COMMUNITY THEATER AND ACTING SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds EFFORTS OF GRACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ZULU SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE CLUB ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY CITY CDC ↗

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…Second Harvest Food B…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Marketing Education R…New Schools for New O…New Orleans Community…Arts Council of New O…The Gpoa FoundationShare Our StrengthYouthforce NolaThe Administrators of…Foundation for Louisi…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA34.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Marketing Education Retail Alliance Inc · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Arts Council of New Orleans · The Gpoa Foundation · Share Our Strength · Youthforce Nola · The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund · Foundation for Louisiana

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 Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 56 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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