· Public charity
Pro Bono Publico Foundation
To enhance the quality of life in greater new orleans area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 59 grants below total $1,079,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,119,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $810k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MANNING FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| KIPP NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS | $65,000 |
| INSPIRE NOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS | $55,000 |
| TNTP INC | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA - GNO | $35,000 |
| CRESCENT CITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| STEM LIBRARY LAB | $25,000 |
| LA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| 18TH WARD SPORTS CLUB | $25,000 |
| COLLEGIATE ACADEMICS | $25,000 |
| MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| FIRST LINE SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS MILITARY & MARITIME ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP | $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 (FY17–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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 +44% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k 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
- NSNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $476k · revenue +107%
- KOKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $388k · revenue +106%
- ICINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +203%
Funded once
- TCTHE CAPITOL ENCORE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +45%
- LOLEGACY OF EXCELLENCE INC - DBA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SOSPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Living school inc operates a high school in new orleans, louisiana that cultivates equity by nurturing students to do work that improves their lives, communities, and environment through holistic health,citizenship & entrepreneurship.
Advocates for arts-based education corporation is a nonprofit entity that operates the willow school. the willow school is a kindergarten through 12th grade new orleans public school located in uptown new orleans. a charter school is a…
Mission of the louisiana superintendent's academy is to respond to the need for strong leadership in louisiana school districts by creating a selective and rigorous professional learning experience to increase the pool of qualified…
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…
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…
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,…
Rethink's mission is to support black youth in becoming thoughtful leaders, capable of critically rethinking their experiences, and taking action to create and sustain transformative systemic change.
Educating and advocating for Charter Schools in Louisiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Early Partners. 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 18 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 107 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Association of Public Charter ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BRICOLAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JCFA ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Citizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP ↗
- Who funds BELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds New Orleans College Preparatory Academie ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds CORE ELEMENT GREATER NEW ORLEANS STEM I ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Raphael Academy ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION 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 · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · The Gpoa Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Agenda for Children
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 Pro Bono Publico Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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.