· Public charity
Pro Bono Publico Foundation
To enhance the quality of life in greater new orleans area.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KOKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $388k · revenue +106%
- ICINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +203%
- FSFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SOSPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $15k
- LOLEGACY OF EXCELLENCE INC - DBA BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ELEMENTARYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- TCTHE CAPITOL ENCORE ACADEMYgraduatedone 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.
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.
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 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 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 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.
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Educating and advocating for Charter Schools in Louisiana
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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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.
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
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.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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