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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.

$126k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$21k
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, FY2020 to 2023.

Environment$127kArts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$50kRecreation & Sports$45kEducation$41kCommunity Improvement$4kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$1k
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $100,524, the rows itemized in this filing. The $125,924 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,400 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $95k
$12,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$682k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%PARTNERS FOR PLANTSGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $26k → 15%NOTG COASTAL PRESERVATION SCHOLARSHIP: $2k → 23%PARTNERS FOR PLANTSGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $16k → 15%NOTG COASTAL PRESERVATION SCHOLARSHIP: $2k → 23%PARTNERS FOR PLANTSGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $12k → 15%THE CHARTWELL CENTER: $1k → 23%PARTNERS FOR PLANTSGARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $11k → 15%COMMON GROUND RELIEF PROJECT: $6k → 23%COMMON GROUND RELIEF PROJECT: $6k → 23%COMMON GROUND RELIEF PROJECT: $6k → 23%COMMON GROUND RELIEF PROJECT: $5k → 23%NEW ORLEANS CITY PARKNEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDENS: $21k → 23%GROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $15k → 23%GROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $15k → 23%GROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $10k → 23%GROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS CITY PARKNEW ORLEANS BOTANICAL GARDENS: $10k → 23%LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS CORP: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK: $8k → 23%LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS CORP: $8k → 23%NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK: $6k → 23%LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS CORP: $5k → 23%NOMA FLOWER FUND: $1k → 23%LATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $15k → 23%LATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $15k → 23%ST CHARLES AVENUE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 23%ST CHARLES AVENUE ASSOCIATION: $3k → 23%FRIENDS OF BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE: $10k → 23%FRIENDS OF BEAUREGARD-KEYES HOUSE: $5k → 23%SOUL: $12k → 23%SOUL: $12k → 23%SOUL: $6k → 23%MARKET UMBRELLA: $2k → 23%SOUL: $5k → 23%MARKET UMBRELLA: $2k → 23%FRIENDS OF STUDIO IN THE WOODS: $4k → 23%FRIENDS OF STUDIO IN THE WOODS: $4k → 23%FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $11k → 23%FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $10k → 23%FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $10k → 23%FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS EDIBLE SCHOOLYARD: $10k → 23%LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY PITOT HOUSE: $3k → 23%LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY PITOT HOUSE: $2k → 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$357k · 15 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$357k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+22%

Still filing today

87%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GD
    GROW DAT YOUTH FARM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CITY PARK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +48%
  • FS
    FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -61%
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
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

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.

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2
Garden District Association

Preservation, improvement and maintenance of the integrity of the historical district

Arts & Culture
3
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
4
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation

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…

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6
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
7
Friends of the Lsu Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
8
The Urban Conservancy

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.

Community Improvement
9
Grounds Krewe Nola Inc

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…

Environment
10
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
12
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Woman's Exchange Dba Hermann-Grima Gallier Historic House; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $64,204 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICASustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL: $35,000 · EnvironmentSustaining Our Urban Landscape …FRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $44,820 · OtherFRIENDS OF CITY PARKLATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherLATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONS…ST CHARLES AVENUE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · OtherST CHARLES AVENUE ASSOCIAT…LOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $4,500 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS: $22,500 · Arts & CultureLONGUE VUE HOUSE…Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Beaur…THE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMAN'S EXCH…FRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS: $7,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF A STU…+1 more: $1,300 · Arts & CultureGROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $50,000 · Food & NutritionGROW DAT YOUTH …FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $41,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE SC…COMMON GROUND RELIEF INC: $23,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMARKETUMBRELLAORG: $4,000 · Community ImprovementNEW ORLEANS TOWN GARDENERS INC: $3,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$99,204Other$85,320Arts & Culture$53,800Food & Nutrition$50,000Education$41,000Public Safety & Disaster$23,000Community Improvement$4,000Philanthropy$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $64,204 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGROW DAT YOUTH FARM: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CITY PARK: $44,820 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSustaining Our Urban Landscape SOUL: $35,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLATTER LIBRARY GARDEN CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetCOMMON GROUND RELIEF INC: $23,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS: $22,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS: $7,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMARKETUMBRELLAORG: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS TOWN GARDENERS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Freeman-Woollam Found…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Almar Foundationd…New Orleans Community…Baptist Community Min…Shell USA Company Fou…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Gayle and Tom Benson …Michael Bright White …Ella West Freeman Fou…New Orleans Theatre A…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA29.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Town Gardeners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Orleans Town Gardeners 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Town Gardeners Inc?

    Find your warmest path to New Orleans Town Gardeners Inc 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 17 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $132k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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