· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $1,003,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,528,111 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,524,611 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $346k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| LAFOURCHE PARISH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $8,000 |
| LAGNIAPPE BAKING CO LLC | $8,000 |
| GUIDRY'S CAKE SHOP INC | $7,000 |
| EFFORTS OF GRACE | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 85% 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF WWOZ INC7× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +34%
- NDNORMAN DIXON SR ANNUAL SECOND LINE PARADE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $725k · revenue +5% · 100% of their budget
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS CLINIC & ASSISTANCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k
- KSKID SMARTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +176%
- FOFRIENDS OF KIPP NEW ORLEANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +483%
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.
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
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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
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kid Smart and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 56 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 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 EFFORTS OF GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ZULU SOCIAL AID & PLEASURE CLUB ↗
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 · 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
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 Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc 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.