How much does Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc give?

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. It funded between 26 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (86%), Human Services (6%), Health (5%).

Who are Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: START Corporation ($25M), Noaids Task Force ($17M), Responsibility House Inc ($15M).

Does Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater New Orleans Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries, United Way of Southeast Louisiana.

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

Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc at a glance 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 it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 31 grants below total $25,292,059, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,076,441 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,784,382 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

+42%

+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

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

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 +9%
PL
PROJECT LAZARUS
one grant, 2017 · $48k · revenue -6%
LA
LOUIS ARMSTRONG FAMILY SERVICES
one grant, 2017 · $28k

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.

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…

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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.

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Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants

International

Orleans Habitat for Humanity Inc

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need

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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

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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 3222 Canal Street Apartments Nonprofit Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/35

Grantees still filing

25/35

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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

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 Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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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

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.

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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 endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home