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Pro Bono Publico Foundation

To enhance the quality of life in greater new orleans area.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
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 2025.

Education$7.7MArts & Culture$340kYouth Development$313kRecreation & Sports$283kHealth$163kHuman Services$103kEmployment$90kCivil Rights$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 59 grants below total $1,079,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,119,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,000 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $810k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DISCOVERY SCHOOLS$25,000
CRESCENT CITY SCHOOL$25,000
STEM LIBRARY LAB$25,000
NEW ORLEANS MILITARY & MARITIME ACADEMY$25,000
18TH WARD SPORTS CLUB$25,000
MORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL$25,000
FIRST LINE SCHOOLS$25,000
COLLEGIATE ACADEMICS$25,000
LA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS$25,000
HYNES CHARTER SCHOOLS$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CLOVER HEALTH: $10k → 6%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $15k → 15%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $8k → 15%CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING: $5k → 15%POLICY INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 15%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $15k → 23%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $15k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $15k → 23%KINGSLEY HOUSE: $10k → 23%LA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE: $10k → 23%LA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE: $10k → 23%LA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE: $5k → 23%LA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE: $5k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $25k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $20k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $13k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $10k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $5k → 23%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $5k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 90 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
11

Total granted

$8.7M
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $145k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
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 · $388k · revenue +106%
  • IC
    INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +203%
  • FS
    FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • LO
    LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE INC - DBA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • TC
    THE CAPITOL ENCORE ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +45%
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
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
3
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
4
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
5
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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6
Living School Inc

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.

Education
7
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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8
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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9
Advocates for Art-Based Education Corp

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…

Education
10
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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11
The Louisiana Superintendents Academy Co James Meza

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…

Education
12
Louisiana Charter Schools in Action

Educating and advocating for Charter Schools in Louisiana

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Schools for New Orleans Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 107 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
93/100
Grantees still filing
66/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Teach for America Inc: $490,000 · EducationTeach for America IncNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $475,667 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INCKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $387,500 · EducationKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INCINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $300,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $237,500 · EducationLouisiana Association of Public Charter: $225,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $222,500 · Education+54 more: $4,015,300 · Education+54 moreCRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS: $187,500 · OtherCRESCENT CITY SCHO…ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL: $135,000 · OtherST AUGUSTINE HIGH …New Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $120,000 · OtherNew Orleans Colleg…ST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherST MICHAEL SPECIAL…CITY YEAR INC: $100,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCRaphael Academy: $90,000 · OtherRaphael AcademyTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $90,000 · OtherTHE CHARTWELL CONS…ST STEPHEN SCHOOL: $77,500 · OtherCENTER FOR RESILIENCE: $62,500 · OtherAGENDA FOR CHILDREN: $60,000 · OtherBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $75,000 · OtherYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $90,000 · OtherYOUTH EMPOWERMENT …+13 more: $217,500 · Other+13 moreNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $135,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $102,500 · Arts & CultureRoots of Music Inc: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTEM LIBRARY LAB: $78,496 · Human ServicesPOLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $72,500 · Human ServicesCLOVER NOLA INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA CHILDREN'S RESEARCH CENTER DEVELOPMENT & LEARNING INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $115,000 · PhilanthropySON OF A SAINT: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH RUN NOLA INC: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTAND FOR CHILDREN LEADERSHIP CENTER INC: $27,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth Development18TH WARD: $62,500 · Recreation & SportsNEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$6,353,467Other$1,455,000Arts & Culture$412,500Human Services$273,496Philanthropy$240,000Youth Development$207,500Recreation & Sports$117,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeach for America Inc: $490,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $475,667 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $387,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $300,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $237,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLouisiana Association of Public Charter: $225,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $222,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS: $187,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBRICOLAGE ACADEMY: $150,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC: $150,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL: $135,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $130,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetFRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL: $130,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC: $130,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOUISIANA: $130,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCitizens Committee for Education dba Homer A Plessy Community School: $125,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLIVE OAK WILDERNESS CAMP: $125,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetBELLE CHASSE ACADEMY INC: $125,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJCFA: $125,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE BEYOND INC: $115,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetSUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $102,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetKID SMART: $102,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION PIONEERS: $100,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $100,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $90,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCORE ELEMENT GREATER NEW ORLEANS STEM I: $90,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetRaphael Academy: $90,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $90,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $87,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: $81,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM LIBRARY LAB: $78,496 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHFORCE NOLA: $75,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPOLICY INSTITUTE FOR THE CHILDREN OF LOUISIANA INC: $72,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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 LAKE FOREST ELEMENTARY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • 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 JCFA ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds New Orleans College Preparatory Academie ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE BEYOND INC ↗
  • Who funds SUCCESS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KID SMART ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CORE ELEMENT GREATER NEW ORLEANS STEM I ↗
  • Who funds Raphael Academy ↗
  • Who funds THE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOICE FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DISCOVERY HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Orleans FoundationLA136× affinity75 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 · 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

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 Pro Bono Publico Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pro Bono Publico Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 107 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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