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The Gpoa Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$793k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$718kYouth Development$626kCrime & Legal$350kHuman Services$349kArts & Culture$228kPhilanthropy$133kHealth$112kRecreation & Sports$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $776k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS$28,000
ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC$25,000
STEM LIBRARY LAB$25,000
UPTURN ARTS$23,000
SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP$20,000
DAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION$20,000
BE NOLA (BLACK EDUCATION FOR NEW ORLEANS)$20,000
NEW ORLEANS YOUTH ALLIANCE$20,000
THE BRIGHT SCHOOL$20,000
COMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS INC$20,000
UNCOMMON CONSTRUCTION$20,000
YOUTHFORCE NOLA$20,000
CAFE RECONCILE$20,000
ST MICHAEL'S SPECIAL SCHOOL$20,000
FOR PROVIDERS BY PROVIDERS$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICE: $5k → 10%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICES: $5k → 10%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $25k → 15%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDRENS HOMES AND SERVICES: $5k → 10%STEM LIBRARY LAB: $10k → 15%SECOND CHANCE LIVING PMI CORPORATION: $25k → 15%KINGSLEY HOUSE INC: $10k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $20k → 23%ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC: $25k → 23%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $15k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $15k → 23%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $10k → 23%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $10k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $28k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE: $20k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $20k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $10k → 23%BOYS TOWN LOUISIANA: $20k → 23%BOYS TOWN LOUISIANA: $20k → 23%BOYS TOWN LOUISIANA: $11k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 42 repeat orgs$914k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
41

Total granted

$1.8M
$606k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+29%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UC
    unCommon Construction Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +591%
  • SE
    SPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP
    4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +75%
  • DB
    DAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • AF
    AGENDA FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +530%
  • PN
    Puentes New Orleans Incorporatedgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +171%
  • SC
    Second Chance Living PMI Corporation
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -49% · 34% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

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.

Youth Development
3
Train Up a Child Nola

Providing educational opportunities and support to underserved youth in New Orleans.

Youth Development
4
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

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5
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
6
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
7
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association of New Orleans

VAYLA supports youth leaders and college students that want to engage and empower their communities through storytelling.

Youth Development
8
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
9
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
10
Cultivating Youth

Cultivating Youth (CY) is a 501c(3) that works to eliminate childhood trauma, restore healing, reduce obesity, prevent violence, and minimize recidivism in New Orleans youth ages 8-24 through physical activity, therapy, education,…

Recreation & Sports
11
New Orleans Early Education Network

The new orleans early education network (noeen) is working to have a collective impact on the early childhood sector in new orleans by increasing at-risk children's access to quality early care and education and by designing and…

Education
12
Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reconcile New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Therese Academy. 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 16 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr15%19%5–10yr21%41%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr9%8%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%2%<5yr15%21%5–10yr21%38%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr9%10%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/94
the rest of the field
18%
559/3,032

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.

04the grantee network

91 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. 91 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/91
Grantees still filing
58/91
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CASA - NEW ORLEANS — $75,000 · OtherCASA - NEW ORLEANSHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS — $62,500 · OtherHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANSNew Orleans Youth Alliance — $60,000 · OtherNew Orleans Youth AllianceBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $55,000 · OtherBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAFST MICHAEL SPECIAL SCHOOL — $45,000 · OtherTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $42,360 · OtherLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $70,000 · OtherLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS — $40,000 · Other+36 more — $555,480 · Other+36 moreSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP — $75,000 · EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER F…826 NEW ORLEANS — $60,000 · Education826 NEW ORLEANSTrainingGrounds Inc — $45,000 · EducationTrainingGrounds IncNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER — $40,000 · EducationNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTERYOUTHFORCE NOLA — $40,000 · EducationYOUTHFORCE NOLAGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $40,000 · EducationGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MIS…LIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $35,000 · EducationLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INCNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC — $35,000 · EducationNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND M…THE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $30,000 · EducationLOOP NOLA — $30,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 · Education+14 more — $198,936 · Education+14 moreOPERATION RESTORATION — $70,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTOR…COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $58,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE N…Boys Town Louisiana Inc — $50,516 · Human ServicesBoys Town Louisi…UPTURN ARTS — $38,000 · Human ServicesUPTURN ARTSRAINTREE SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesRAINTREE SERVICE…STEM LIBRARY LAB — $35,000 · Human ServicesSTEM LIBRARY LABELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesELLIS MARSALIS C…Second Chance Living PMI Corporation — $25,000 · Human ServicesSecond Chance Li…NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $20,000 · Human ServicesTRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS — $15,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES & SERVICES — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesunCommon Construction Inc — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentunCommon Const…DAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentDAUGHTERS BEYO…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITIES IN…RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC — $42,500 · Youth DevelopmentRECONCILE NEW …SON OF A SAINT — $34,000 · Youth DevelopmentSON OF A SAINTCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR THE…Yeah Yoga — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYeah YogaYOUTH RUN NOLA INC — $15,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $35,000 · Youth Development+4 moreCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc — $48,948 · Arts & CultureArts Council of New Orleans — $42,000 · Arts & CultureLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS — $30,000 · Arts & CultureKID SMART — $25,991 · Arts & CultureNEW VOICES NEW ORLEANS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureART CAMP 504 — $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $102,668 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA — $30,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE BEYOND INC — $22,500 · PhilanthropyNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC — $42,500 · Housing & ShelterPuentes New Orleans Incorporated — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCROSSROADS — $21,600 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,005,340Education$653,936Human Services$406,516Youth Development$366,500Arts & Culture$166,939Philanthropy$155,168Housing & Shelter$89,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $102,668 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetunCommon Construction Inc — $75,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSPECIAL EDUCATION LEADER FELLOWSHIP — $75,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCASA - NEW ORLEANS — $75,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetDAUGHTERS BEYOND INCARCERATION — $70,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetLOUISIANA CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $70,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS — $62,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetNew Orleans Youth Alliance — $60,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budget826 NEW ORLEANS — $60,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $58,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF — $55,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBoys Town Louisiana Inc — $50,516 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS GULF SOUTH INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Works of Louisiana Inc — $48,948 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTrainingGrounds Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetRECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC — $42,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC — $42,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CHARTWELL CONSORTIUM SPECIAL EDUC ASSISTANCE AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $42,360 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetArts Council of New Orleans — $42,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SAILING NEW ORLEANS — $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTHFORCE NOLA — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUPTURN ARTS — $38,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLIBERTY'S KITCHEN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRAINTREE SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTEM LIBRARY LAB — $35,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSON OF A SAINT — $34,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR RESILIENCE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLOOP NOLA — $30,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAGENDA FOR CHILDREN — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKID SMART — $25,991 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPuentes New Orleans Incorporated — $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSecond Chance Living PMI Corporation — $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCOLLEGE BEYOND INC — $22,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetCROSSROADS — $21,600 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget18TH WARD — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTART THE ADVENTURE IN READING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…New Orleans Community…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Keller Family Foundat…Goldring Family Found…Entergy Charitable Fo…Forekids Foundations …WK Kellogg FoundationThe Booth-Bricker FundEugenie & Joseph Jone…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA138.3× affinity76 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 · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family 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 Gpoa 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    33report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Gpoa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Gpoa Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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