· Public charity
Nola Business Alliance
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $1,118,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,147,158 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,158 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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $848k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THRIVE NOLA | $250,000 |
| YOUTHFORCE NOLA | $175,000 |
| CITY OF NEW ORLEANS | $128,000 |
| NEWCORP | $110,000 |
| PROPELLER | $100,000 |
| THE WATER COLLABORATIVE OF GNO | $100,000 |
| DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES | $60,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA | $50,000 |
| GOOD WORK NETWORK | $50,000 |
| METRO-SOURCE INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–23, $758k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k 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
- TNTHRIVE NEW ORLEANS2× · 2022–2023 · $555k · revenue +3%
- YNYOUTHFORCE NOLA2× · 2022–2023 · $350k · revenue +34%
- NINEWCORP INC2× · 2022–2023 · $220k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANAone grant, 2022 · $215k · revenue +1%
- KPKALEIDOSCOPE PATHWAYSone grant, 2022 · $72k
- YEYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +8%
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.
Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…
The mission of GNOCCS is to strengthen and support charter schools across Greater New Orleans by fostering collaboration, building capacity, and advocating for policies that enhance student achievement. Its most significant activities…
The greater new orleans foundation's mission is to advance charitable giving, strengthen nonprofits, and lead transformative civic projects in the 13 parish region of southeast louisiana. we seek to create a thriving, sustainable and just…
The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…
New Harmony High School empowers each student to actively direct their own learning. As our name suggests, students will work to find new harmonies in order to restore balance that has been lost in our coastal communities, finding new ways…
To inspire an educational movement where students can develop academic and personal skills in order to be prepared for college, their community and the world.
Groundwork new orleans engages local residents, businesses and government officials to revitalize neighborhoods and transform community liabilities into community assets. by changing places we change lives. since 2006, gwnola has focused…
The mission of Black Education For New Orleans BE NOLA is to support Black educators and schools to ensure an education that creates better outcomes and opportunities for Black children in New Orleans as a critical factor in building a…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Guided by our community and grounded in racial equity intersectional equity and youth leadership New Orleans Youth Alliance fosters youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development…
To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.
Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish. the organization's focus is to grow the job base and secure private investment for orleans parish by attracting corporations for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate Academies and the most unlike its peers is Capitol Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 THRIVE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHFORCE NOLA ↗
- Who funds NEWCORP INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds WATER COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD WORK NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Capitol Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF KING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
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 · Baptist Community Ministries · WK Kellogg Foundation · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · The Kresge Foundation · The Stephen and Sandy Rosenthal Family Foundation · Youthforce Nola · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Entergy Charitable 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 Nola Business Alliance 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.