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Youthforce Nola

YOUTHFORCE NOLA fuels a movement that equips young people to graduate high school on a path to career success.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$446k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$5.0MEmployment$1.6MArts & Culture$449kCommunity Improvement$264kYouth Development$175kInternational$76k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $2,017,583, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,103,652 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,069 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $990k
  • $250k+2 grants · $785k
$68,150
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION SPARK$446,393
NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER$338,653
INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS$182,849
KIPP NEW ORLEANS INC$166,123
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER$120,221
WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOU$119,118
COLLEGIATE ACADEMIES$96,441
STEM NOLA$90,000
NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENT$76,122
UNCOMMON CONSTRUCTION INC$71,209
EDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNA$68,150
FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE & MAT$40,000
INSTITUTE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELL$38,733
INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
GREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPME$22,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $100k) 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.

area typical 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $75k → 23%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS: $25k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 26 repeat orgs$956k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
13

Total granted

$6.6M
$440k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+37%

Still filing today

81%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $516k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalEmploymentOther
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

  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER
    5× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +272%
  • IC
    INSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $601k · revenue +91%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $449k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CONNECTED THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR COLLEGE AND CAREER
    one grant, 2018 · $97k · revenue -32%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROVIDER
    one grant, 2018 · $80k
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $76k · revenue +18%
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.

1
The New American Academy Charter School

The new american academy charter school empowers learners and inspires leaders to make this a better world. through our collaborative teacher teams, mastery-based career ladder, and looping cycles, we offer personalized rigorous…

Education
2
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
3
Libertas College Preparatory

The mission of libertas college preparatory charter school is to equip middle school students in grades 4-8 with the academic skills and the strength of character needed to thrive in and graduate from high-performing high schools and…

Education
4
Baton Rouge College Preparatory Inc

Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.

—
5
New Orleans Educational Telecommunications Consortium

Delivery of higher educational services to the public.

—
6
Crescent City Schools

The mission of crescent city schools is to support, develop and manage open enrollment charter schools that raise student achievement and prepare students for college.

—
7
Ecole Bilingue De La Nouvelle Orleans

The mission of ecole bilingue is to develop globally literate students through a rigorous bilingual french-american curriculum, set in a nurturing and multicultural community. we guide our students to excel academically, foster their…

Education
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
Community Academies of New Orleans Inc

Community academies' mission is to cultivate schools that nurture students' character and critical thinking ability in responsive learning environments, thereby equipping them to be impactful community leaders.

Education
10
Ace Tech Charter High School

The school was established to provide for students the highest levels of instruction and academic achievement combined with exemplary character development that will prepare them for post-secondary and apprenticeship education and…

—
11
Isidore Newman School

Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate Academies; the most unlike its peers is Operation Spark. 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

29 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. 29 of the 48 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $1,186,678 · EducationNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTEROperation Spark: $1,062,681 · EducationOperation SparkINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $600,705 · EducationINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLSCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $416,102 · EducationCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIESON RAMPS DBA NEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROVIDER: $270,924 · EducationKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $252,665 · EducationRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $225,267 · EducationNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC: $204,000 · EducationROOTED SCHOOL: $180,374 · Education+11 more: $950,936 · Education+11 moreNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC: $448,632 · OtherNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER NEW O: $360,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GRE…NEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDUCATION PRO: $142,852 · OtherNEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDU…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER: $120,221 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GRE…WARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOU: $119,118 · OtherWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL…NEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROVIDER: $80,000 · OtherEDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNA: $68,150 · Other+15 more: $356,821 · Other+15 moreCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentunCommon Construction Inc: $85,258 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $164,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $100,000 · Human ServicesJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $76,000 · InternationalPER SCHOLAS INC: $7,500 · Employment
Education$5,350,332Other$1,695,794Youth Development$175,258Community Improvement$164,000Human Services$100,000International$76,000Employment$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ORLEANS CAREER CENTER: $1,186,678 over 5y, 18% of budgetOperation Spark: $1,062,681 over 5y, 18% of budgetINSPIRENOLA CHARTER SCHOOLS: $600,705 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS VIDEO ACCESS CENTER INC: $448,632 over 5y, 20% of budgetCOLLEGIATE ACADEMIES: $416,102 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetON RAMPS DBA NEW ORLEANS TECHNICAL EDUCATION PROVIDER: $270,924 over 3y, 28% of budgetKIPP OF NEW ORLEANS INC: $252,665 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION: $225,267 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MILITARY AND MARITIME ACADEMY INC: $204,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROOTED SCHOOL: $180,374 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $178,281 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE EINSTEIN GROUP INC: $174,071 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $164,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMORRIS JEFF COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $143,371 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR QUALITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $125,293 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF LOUISIANA: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $90,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetunCommon Construction Inc: $85,258 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE INC: $79,936 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $76,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetLIVING SCHOOL INC: $64,536 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $42,664 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $31,966 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $31,251 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $21,978 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION INC: $20,494 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetADVOCATES FOR ART-BASED EDUCATION CORP: $15,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Orlea…New Schools for New O…Pro Bono Publico Foun…Baptist Community Min…United Way of Southea…The Gpoa FoundationThe Booth-Bricker FundEntergy Charitable Fo…Keller Family Foundat…Second Harvest Food B…Project Lead the Way …Agenda for Children
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA48.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · New Schools for New Orleans Inc · Pro Bono Publico Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Gpoa Foundation · The Booth-Bricker Fund · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Project Lead the Way Inc · Agenda for Children

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 Youthforce Nola funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Youthforce Nola. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    15report 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
    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.

    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 48 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 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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