· Public charity
New Schools for New Orleans Inc
The mission of nsno is to achieve excellent public schools for every child in new orleans by: (1) attracting and preparing talent to teach and lead (2) launching and supporting open-enrollment public charter schools and (3) advocating for accountable (continued on schedule o) and sustainable high-quality public schools.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $5,404,203 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,512,908 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $108,705 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $450k
- $250k+6 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIPP NEW ORLEANS | $1,801,569 |
| COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES | $761,584 |
| COMMUNITY ACADEMIES | $598,465 |
| FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS | $563,141 |
| EINSTEIN GROUP INC | $558,228 |
| RENEW REINVENTING EDUCATION | $543,242 |
| INSPIRE NOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS | $148,083 |
| WARREN EASTON SR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $130,616 |
| ROOTED SCHOOL | $121,500 |
| ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION (BEN FRANKLIN HIGH) | $50,000 |
| ADVOCATES OF INNOVATIVE SCHOOLS INC (MOTON) | $49,000 |
| BELOVED COMMUNITY | $45,000 |
| THE LIVING SCHOOL | $33,775 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $615k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those 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 +54% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 47 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 FY2024, 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
- KOKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $12M · revenue +106%
- CACOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +177%
- FSFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SBSQUARE BUTTON CONSULTINGone grant, 2017 · $65k
- APACHIEVEMENT PARTNERSone grant, 2017 · $64k
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +25%
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 new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…
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…
The mission of libertas college preparatory charter school is to equip middle school students in grades 4-8 with the academic skills and the strength of character needed to thrive in and graduate from high-performing high schools and…
Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.
See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…
To fulfill every student's individual potential by personalizing an educational plan that focuses on school and family partnership to achieve optimal student performance.
The Lycee Francais de Chicago, driven by our core values of respect, responsibility and the joy of learning, empowers students to grow into active global citizens.
Our mission is to personalize learning through a collaboration of family, community and school; to nurture the innate curiosity of our students; ignite their passion for learning; and prepare them for lifelong success.
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
Through high-quality instruction, intensive academic supports, and hard work, ambition preparatory charter school ensures that all students in kindergarten through grade eight have academic skills and self-discipline for college and life…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Academies of New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Generation Success. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 69 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 KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Elan Academy Inc dba Elan Academy Char ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds New Orleans College Preparatory Academie ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE EINSTEIN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HYNES CHARTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROOTED SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Association of Public Charter ↗
- Who funds MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIVING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Lyceum Schools Inc dba The Delores Taylor Arthur School ↗
- Who funds Foundation Preparatory Charter School ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds BRICOLAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School ↗
- Who funds IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYCEE FRANCAIS DE LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Audiences Charter Association ↗
- Who funds Encore Learning ↗
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: Pro Bono Publico Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Youthforce Nola · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Charter Fund Inc D/B/A Charter School Growth Fund · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Keller Family Foundation · Agenda for Children · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · New Schools Fund · Baptist Community Ministries · The Gpoa Foundation
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 Schools for New Orleans 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.
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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.