· Public charity
New Orleans Town Gardeners Inc
The new orleans town gardeners' shared appreciation of horticulture, floral design, garden history and design, and conservation all find ways to flourish, not only in our fellowship but also by enriching the environment of our historic city for this and future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $100,524 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $125,924 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,400 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ORLEANS CITY PARKNEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDENS | $21,320 |
| PARTNERS FOR PLANTSGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA | $15,954 |
| GROW DAT YOUTH FARM | $15,000 |
| SOUL | $12,000 |
| FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE | $10,000 |
| LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS CORP | $10,000 |
| COMMON GROUND RELIEF PROJECT | $5,250 |
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 (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +114% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GDGROW DAT YOUTH FARM4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +29%
- FOFRIENDS OF CITY PARK5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +48%
- FSFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NONEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +22%
- TCTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -61%
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.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
Preservation, improvement and maintenance of the integrity of the historical district
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc. (d/b/a Lafitte Greenway Partnership) works to build, program, and promote the Lafitte Greenway as a great public space.
To support the new orleans botanical garden located in city park, which is the largest park in new orleans. the mission of the new orleans botanical garden is to cultivate, promote and inspire the knowledge, love, and appreciation of…
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.
The purpose of the organization is to support the financial well being and advancement of the programs and activities of the LSU Museum of Art.
Founded in 2001, The Urban Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to research, education and advocacy that promotes the wise stewardship of the urban built environment and local economies.
Grounds Krewe is a 501c3 non-profit with a mission to promote waste prevention, recycling and sustainable products at New Orleans special events. Our vision is to help foster a festival culture that retains all of its enjoyment, while…
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woman's Exchange Dba Hermann-Grima Gallier Historic House and the most unlike its peers is Latter Library Garden Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GROW DAT YOUTH FARM ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Sustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL ↗
- Who funds LATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds LONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MARKETUMBRELLAORG ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS TOWN GARDENERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
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 · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Michael Bright White Family Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · New Orleans Theatre Association Inc
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 Town Gardeners 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.
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