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The Booth-Bricker Fund at a glance

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The Booth-Bricker Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$16MHealth$526kYouth Development$500kArts & Culture$346kHuman Services$211kRecreation & Sports$140kPublic Benefit$122kCrime & Legal$62kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $114k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
AI FOR EQUITY$150,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP$150,000
THE CENTER FOR LEARNER EQUITY$135,000
YOUTHFORCE NOLA$125,000
SCIENCE TEACHERS EQUIPMENT LENDING LIBRARY$102,000
RENEW THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM$100,000
NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER$100,000
KIPP NEW ORLEANS$100,000
CAMBIAR EDUCATION$100,000
CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF LA$100,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RANFURLY HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 13%UNBOUND: $500 → 16%UNBOUND: $50 → 16%UNBOUND: $50 → 16%UNBOUND: $50 → 16%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $500 → 23%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $500 → 23%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $500 → 23%CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $100k → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $200 → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $100 → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $50 → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $50 → 23%HARRY TOMPSON CENTER: $50 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Booth-Bricker Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 93%.

The Booth-Bricker Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 92 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
65

Total granted

$16M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+8%

Still filing today

61%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $764k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BA
    BRICOLAGE ACADEMY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $720k · revenue +83%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR RESILIENCE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $595k · revenue +1%
  • SE
    SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP
    5× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +649%
  • CB
    CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +9%
  • IP
    IDEA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
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
Lycee Francais De La Nouvelle Orleans

Provide free, public french immersion education and prepare students to matriculate in the finest colleges of the world.

Education
2
Lake Forest Elementary Charter School

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…

Education
3
Renew - Reinventing Education

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.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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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8
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
9
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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10
Morris Jeff Community School

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…

Education
11
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
12
Louisiana State Bar Association

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…

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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.
05the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 176 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
73/107
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $5,320,400 · EducationNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INCLouisiana Association of Public Charter: $790,000 · EducationLouisiana Association of Public CharterBRICOLAGE ACADEMY: $720,000 · EducationBRICOLAGE ACADEMYThe Center for Learner Equity: $635,000 · EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP: $550,000 · EducationYOUTHFORCE NOLA: $475,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $456,000 · Education+39 more: $3,616,260 · Education+39 moreTEACH FOR AMERICA - GREATER NO: $750,000 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - GREATER N…CENTER FOR RESILIENCE: $595,000 · OtherCENTER FOR RESILIENCECRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS: $458,000 · OtherCRESCENT CITY SCHOOLSCITY YEAR INC: $310,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCTHE NEW TEACHER PROJECT: $300,000 · OtherTHE NEW TEACHER PROJECTSCIENCE TEACHERS EQUIPMENT LENDING LIBRARY: $258,000 · OtherSCIENCE TEACHERS EQUIPMENT LE…EDUCATION REFORM NOW-LOUISIANA: $250,000 · OtherEDUCATION REFORM NOW-LOUISIAN…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LA: $250,000 · OtherXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LARENEW THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM: $200,000 · Other+94 more: $1,310,175 · Other+94 moreNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $78,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $60,250 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $6,750 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $100,100 · HealthMARILLAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $40,000 · Health+4 more: $1,900 · HealthCHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 · Human ServicesRANFURLY HOMES FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human Services+5 more: $2,850 · Human ServicesPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $62,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOPERATION SMILE INC: $20,120 · International+1 more: $100 · International
Education$12,562,660Other$4,681,175Arts & Culture$229,000Health$142,000Human Services$107,850Public Safety & Disaster$62,000International$20,220

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW SCHOOLS FOR NEW ORLEANS INC: $5,320,400 over 6y, 11% of budgetLouisiana Association of Public Charter: $790,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetBRICOLAGE ACADEMY: $720,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Center for Learner Equity: $635,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR RESILIENCE: $595,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP: $550,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetYOUTHFORCE NOLA: $475,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS: $458,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $456,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTNTP INC: $320,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLyceum Schools Inc dba The Delores Taylor Arthur School: $317,100 over 3y, 16% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $310,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $235,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRELAY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACADEMIES OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetALLIANCE OF AI FOR EQUITY: $150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetROOTED SCHOOL: $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $145,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLIVING SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $100,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAGENDA FOR CHILDREN: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEADING EDUCATORS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetElan Academy Inc dba Elan Academy Char: $90,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC: $88,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMETAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $86,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS OF LOUISIANA: $80,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School: $80,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $78,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetKID SMART: $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $60,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEDUCARE NEW ORLEANS: $60,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBUREAU OF GOVERNMENTAL RESEARCH INC: $56,250 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $43,750 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFRENCH AND MONTESSORI EDUCATION INC DBA AUDUBON CHARTER SCHOOL: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARILLAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: $37,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Third Way Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LENS: $30,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG ASPIRATIONS YOUNG ARTISTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLouisiana Architecture Foundation: $22,500 over 2y, 2.5% 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…Pro Bono Publico Foun…The Almar Foundationd…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…Keller Family Foundat…The Usdin-Weil Founda…Goldring Family Found…New Schools for New O…United Way of Southea…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…The Gpoa Foundation
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA94.2× affinity51 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 · 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

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 The Booth-Bricker Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Booth-Bricker Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
35report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Booth-Bricker Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Booth-Bricker Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 176 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-PF 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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