How much does New Schools for New Orleans Inc give?

New Schools for New Orleans Inc reported 16 itemized grants totaling $2,456,170, out of $2,606,278 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does New Schools for New Orleans Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), Health (1%), Human Services (1%).

Who are New Schools for New Orleans Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kipp of New Orleans Inc ($13M), Collegiate Academies ($5.8M), Firstline Schools Inc ($5.8M).

Does New Schools for New Orleans Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as New Schools for New Orleans Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pro Bono Publico Foundation, The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Youthforce Nola.

Where is New Schools for New Orleans Inc based?

New Schools for New Orleans Inc is based in LA.

New Schools for New Orleans Inc

New Schools for New Orleans Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· 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.

$2.6M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$753k

Largest

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.

Education$52MHealth$800kHuman Services$652kEmployment$415kCommunity Improvement$135kArts & Culture$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$16k

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $2,456,170, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,606,278 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $150,108 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 · FY2025

Under $10k2 grants · $15k
$10k–50k5 grants · $122k
$50k–250k5 grants · $477k
$250k+4 grants · $1.8M

$72,231

Median grant

States reached

$21M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RENEW REINVENTING EDUCATION	$752,848
FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS	$400,072
KIPP NEW ORLEANS	$389,133
COMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC	$300,000
INSPIRE NOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS	$138,352
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES	$110,050
ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD	$100,000
ROOTED SCHOOL	$72,231
WARREN EASTON SR HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC	$56,800
VOICES FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND EDUCATION	$47,425
FRIENDS OF KING SCHOOL	$38,050
MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL	$16,209
HYNES CHARTER SCHOOL CORPORATION	$10,000
FRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC (AUDUBON CHARTER)	$10,000
BRICOLAGE ACADEMY	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

$56M · 60 repeat orgs$343k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$56M

$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+25%

Still filing today

83%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity 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

KO
KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +106%
CA
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +177%
FS
FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +36%

Funded once

SB
SQUARE BUTTON CONSULTING
one grant, 2017 · $65k
AP
ACHIEVEMENT PARTNERS
one grant, 2017 · $64k
LU
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +25%

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.

The New American Academy Charter School

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…

Education

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

Baton Rouge College Preparatory Inc

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.

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Libertas College Preparatory

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…

Education

The Fay School

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,…

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Next Generation Education Dba Epic California Academy

To fulfill every student's individual potential by personalizing an educational plan that focuses on school and family partnership to achieve optimal student performance.

Education

Lycee Francais de Chicago Inc

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.

Education

Alliance Charter Academy

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.

Education

St John's School

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…

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Thomas Jefferson School

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…

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Washington Leadership Academy Public Charter School

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.

Education

Ambition Preparatory Charter School

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Academies of New Orleans Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/59

Grantees still filing

41/59

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$48,804,234Other$7,105,214Human Services$742,521Community Improvement$135,000

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

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.

Pro Bono Publico FoundationLA74.4× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Schools for New Orleans Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Schools for New Orleans Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home