· Private foundation
The Booth-Bricker Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS | $750,000 |
| THE NEW TEACHER PROJECT | $320,000 |
| LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS | $290,000 |
| CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| BRICOLAGE ACADEMY | $190,000 |
| SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP | $150,000 |
| AI FOR EQUITY | $150,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR LEARNER EQUITY | $135,000 |
| YOUTHFORCE NOLA | $125,000 |
| SCIENCE TEACHERS EQUIPMENT LENDING LIBRARY | $102,000 |
| CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF LA | $100,000 |
| RENEW THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| CAMBIAR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL NO CO MANNING FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| KIPP NEW ORLEANS | $100,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Booth-Bricker Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +9% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 17 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $764k 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 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $5.3M · revenue +53%
- BABRICOLAGE ACADEMY5× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +83%
- CFCENTER FOR RESILIENCE5× · 2020–2024 · $595k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +649%
- CBCHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANSone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
- CACOLLEGIATE ACADEMIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +29%
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.
Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.
To provide a nurturing environment, which facilitates maximum student achievement through a rigorous, accelerated academic program incorporating visual, cultural and creative arts, which will ultimately enhance each student's ability to…
The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
As an open-access school, morris jeff community school embraces learners of all backgrounds and holds each student to high expectations. our students are provided with a deep, rich curriculum that engages them in inquiry, develops strong…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…
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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 176 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 NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Association of Public Charter ↗
- Who funds BRICOLAGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Center for Learner Equity ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds YOUTHFORCE NOLA ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds Lyceum Schools Inc dba The Delores Taylor Arthur School ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER ↗
- Who funds KIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF AI FOR EQUITY ↗
- Who funds ROOTED SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEADING EDUCATORS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds CAMBIAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AGENDA FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Elan Academy Inc dba Elan Academy Char ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION 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 · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · The Gpoa 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 The Booth-Bricker Fund 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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