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Nola Business Alliance

Charged by the city of new orleans with leading the economic recovery and development of orleans parish.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
11
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Community Improvement$1.6MYouth Development$420kEducation$394kPhilanthropy$215kEnvironment$200kEmployment$25k
02FY2023 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $1,118,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,147,158 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $29,158 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $848k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THRIVE NOLA$250,000
YOUTHFORCE NOLA$175,000
CITY OF NEW ORLEANS$128,000
NEWCORP$110,000
THE WATER COLLABORATIVE OF GNO$100,000
PROPELLER$100,000
DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE$75,000
TRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES$60,000
GOOD WORK NETWORK$50,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA$50,000
METRO-SOURCE INC$20,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROPELLER: $100k → 23%THRIVE NOLA: $305k → 23%THRIVE NOLA: $250k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $53k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $50k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 7 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$891k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+20%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • TN
    THRIVE NEW ORLEANS
    2× · 2022–2023 · $555k · revenue +3%
  • YN
    YOUTHFORCE NOLA
    2× · 2022–2023 · $350k · revenue +34%
  • NI
    NEWCORP INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $220k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2022 · $215k · revenue +1%
  • KP
    KALEIDOSCOPE PATHWAYS
    one grant, 2022 · $72k
  • YE
    YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +8%
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
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

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…

Education
2
Louisiana Charter School Alliance

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…

Education
3
The Greater New Orleans Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

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'…

Community Improvement
5
New Harmony High Institute

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…

Education
6
Inspirenola Charter Schools

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.

Education
7
Groundwork New Orleans

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…

Environment
8
Benola Inc

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…

Education
9
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
10
New Orleans Youth Alliance

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…

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11
YouthBuild Newark Inc

To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.

Youth Development
12
Nola Business Alliance

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate Academies; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $555,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE NEW ORLEANSURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $103,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANASOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW OR…YOUTHFORCE NOLA: $350,000 · EducationYOUTHFORCE NOLACOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $70,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIESRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $47,829 · EducationRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCAT…ALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $47,296 · EducationALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASS…EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $47,157 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTE…Capitol Education Foundation: $42,000 · EducationCapitol Education Foundati…THE FRIENDS OF KING SCHOOL: $34,868 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 · EducationCITY OF NEW ORLEANS: $128,000 · OtherCITY OF NEW ORLEANSDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $75,000 · OtherDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLE…KALEIDOSCOPE PATHWAYS: $72,000 · OtherKALEIDOSCOPE PATHWAYSBUXTON: $65,000 · OtherBUXTONSHARED STRATEGY GROUP: $54,275 · OtherSHARED STRATEGY GROUPGOOD WORK NETWORK: $50,000 · OtherGOOD WORK NETWORKMETRO SOURCE LLC: $40,000 · OtherMETRO SOURCE LLCMATHES BRIERRE ARCHITECTS APC: $29,139 · OtherGREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 · OtherNOLAVATE BLACK: $21,700 · Other+1 more: $19,200 · OtherNEWCORP INC: $220,000 · Community ImprovementNEWCORP INCTRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $120,000 · Community ImprovementTRUFUND FINAN…UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $215,000 · PhilanthropyWATER COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $200,000 · EnvironmentYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $70,279 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$758,000Education$669,150Other$579,314Community Improvement$340,000Philanthropy$215,000Environment$200,000Crime & Legal$70,279

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHRIVE NEW ORLEANS: $555,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetYOUTHFORCE NOLA: $350,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetNEWCORP INC: $220,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $215,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWATER COLLABORATIVE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $200,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTRUFUND FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $103,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $70,279 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $47,829 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $47,296 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $47,157 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCapitol Education Foundation: $42,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF KING SCHOOL: $34,868 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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…Baptist Community Min…WK Kellogg FoundationNew Schools for New O…Pro Bono Publico Foun…United Way of Southea…Second Harvest Food B…The Kresge FoundationThe Stephen and Sandy…Youthforce NolaNew Orleans Community…Entergy Charitable Fo…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA31.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Nola Business Alliance funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nola Business Alliance. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    9report 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.

    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 27 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.

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