How much did Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc grant in FY2025?

Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc reported 31 itemized grants totaling $25,292,059, out of $28,076,441 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc based?

Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc is based in LA.

Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· Public charity

Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc

The mission of unity of greater new orleans is to coordinate community partnerships to prevent, reduce and end homelessness.

$28M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5.6M

Largest

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 FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$128MHuman Services$9.6MHealth$7.0MEmployment$4.2MCrime & Legal$386k

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 31 grants below total $25,292,059 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $28,076,441 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,784,382 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 · FY2025

$10k–50k2 grants · $62k
$50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
$250k+20 grants · $24M

$381,727

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
START CORPORATION	$5,632,790
TRAVELERS AID	$3,321,527
RESPONSIBILITY HOUSE	$2,469,563
NOAIDS TASKFORCE	$2,345,220
OZANAM INN	$1,376,357
EASTERSEALS	$1,271,727
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS	$1,271,015
DEPAUL USA	$765,644
ODYSSEY HOUSE	$744,602
PRIORITY HEALTH CARE	$614,478
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA	$578,835
THE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC	$514,029
EDEN HOUSE	$490,010
VIALINK	$387,707
NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER	$381,727

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $32.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$148M · 35 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$148M

$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+36%

Still filing today

80%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $901k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

SC
START Corporation
9× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +498%
NT
NOAIDS TASK FORCE
9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +107%
RH
RESPONSIBILITY HOUSE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +18% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

BH
BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION
one grant, 2017 · $131k · revenue +7%
PL
PROJECT LAZARUS
one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue -6%
LA
LOUIS ARMSTRONG FAMILY SERVICES
one grant, 2017 · $28k

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.

Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc

Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…

—

Dubourg Home Dba Place Dubourg Apartments

Provides housing for elderly and disabled persons and families under section 207/223(f) of the national housing act under an agreement with the department of hud.

—

Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants

International

Orleans Habitat for Humanity Inc

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need

—

Terrebonne Arc

Terrebonne arc is committed to securing for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to develop, function, live and enjoy life to their fullest potential with dignity.

Human Services

Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation

Philanthropy

Chicago House & Social Service Agency

Provides housing and support services to individuals and families impacted by hiv/aids

Health

Louisiana Disabled Persons Housing Corp

Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults

—

Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.

Religion

Central Louisiana Coalition to Prevent Homelessness Inc

To identify, advocate, and mobilize community resources to ensure all people in central louisiana have access to stable homes.

Housing & Shelter

Hope House of Central Louisiana

To provide transitional shelter for homeless women and their dependent children while these women are receiving the necessary training and skills to become self sufficient

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 3222 Canal Street Apartments Nonprofit Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Evangelist Housing & Community Dev Corp. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% 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%1/44

the rest of the field

18%

559/3,082

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

35 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. 35 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

25/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$60,957,326Other$37,572,140Health$25,321,194Housing & Shelter$18,670,427Employment$4,176,271Education$1,163,965Community Improvement$514,029Crime & Legal$386,296

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.

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 Orleans FoundationLA49.2× affinity23 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 · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Goldring Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleansartists Against Hunger and Homelessness · Junior League of New Orleans Inc · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Methodist Health System Foundation Inc · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda

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 Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc 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 moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

16report 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

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines