· Community foundation
The Greater New Orleans Foundation
THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION's mission is to advance charitable giving, strengthen nonprofits, and lead transformative civic projects in the 13 parish region of southeast louisiana.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 623 grants below total $34,596,668 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $39,500,406 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,903,738 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k126 grants · $864k
- $10k–50k338 grants · $7.6M
- $50k–250k131 grants · $12M
- $250k+28 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF WISDOM CHURCH AND CATHOLIC STUDENT CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| KIDS JOIN THE FIGHT | $845,672 |
| METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $845,401 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FDTN | $840,763 |
| ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND | $716,460 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS | $637,246 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA | $569,697 |
| OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION | $566,275 |
| NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE | $516,747 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS | $513,957 |
| NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION | $461,810 |
| ECHO COMMUNITY | $426,027 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $424,750 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC | $402,000 |
| ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL | $358,216 |
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 (FY17–24, $13.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
879 repeat relationships — 524 still active in FY2024, 355 since wound down; 86 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.6M 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
- OCOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +101%
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +72%
- INISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- NTNEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FINANCIAL PARTNERS INCone grant, 2020 · $710k · revenue -5%
- FMFEIRO MARINE LIFE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue -11% · 40% of their budget
- WIWEBB INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -3%
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.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…
Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
To promote architecture.
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…
The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…
Delivery of higher educational services to the public.
To develop and connect leaders and citizens to drive transformative change for a better louisiana. through its work, the organization seeks to transform louisiana into a dynamic, future-ready economy that offers every citizen and business…
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…
To spearhead economic development for the ten parish greater new orleans region by creating a favorable business environment that fosters economic growth.
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 Plaquemine Protestant Cemetery Foundation Ltd. 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 25 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
1103 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. 1103 of the 1,366 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS WETLAND FOUNDATION co MR KING MILLING ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OGDEN MUSEUM OF SOUTHERN ART ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL TRAUMA AWARENESS & RESPONSE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of New Orleans Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHFORCE NOLA ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Dignity Period ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SON OF A SAINT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS LTD ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA ↗
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: Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Keller Family Foundation · The Gpoa Foundation · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde 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 Greater New Orleans 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.
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.