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The Nola Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$552k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
65%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$17,950
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 65% of the organizations The Nola Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $636k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$552k57%
FY202323$1.2M65%
FY202211$792k9%
FY202133$649k85%
FY20209$868k100%
FY20191$812k0%
FY20181$1.0M0%
FY20171$1.3Mn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.2MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$544kHealth$481kRecreation & Sports$435kPublic Benefit$245kReligion$227kCivil Rights$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$600,00040%
The Jewish Museum$494,00041%
Morry's Camp Inc$435,00035%
Central Synagogue$252,2505n/a
Civics Unplugged Inc$245,000416%
Syracuse University$193,75040%
Grace Church School$190,00030%
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$100,00010%
University of Michigan$67,27239%
The Realty Foundation of New York Inc$30,00016%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Nola Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $600,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $494,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetMorry's Camp Inc: $435,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCivics Unplugged Inc: $245,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetSyracuse University: $193,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Church School: $190,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew York-Presbyterian Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $67,272 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetThe Realty Foundation of New York Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Partners for Youth Inc Dba Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Roch: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Lyme: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $7,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Fund of New York Inc: $5,181 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Lake: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGrand Street Settlement Inc: $3,541 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStand Among Friends Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Dance Collective Inc: $1,030 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMichigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Educational Alliance Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Scores: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomefront Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good

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.

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How do I get to The Nola Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Nola 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.

About The Nola Foundation

How much does The Nola Foundation give?
The Nola Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $551,652 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Nola Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Education (16%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are The Nola Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($600k), The Jewish Museum ($494k), Morry's Camp Inc ($435k).
Does The Nola Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Nola Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Nola Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is The Nola Foundation based?
The Nola Foundation is based in NY.

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 62 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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