Louisiana · Nonprofit
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,504 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($514,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $230k
What Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc does
Mission
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc. (d/b/a Lafitte Greenway Partnership) works to build, program, and promote the Lafitte Greenway as a great public space.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
People - Lafitte Greenway Partnership (LGP) achieves our vision of a healthy and vibrant greenway that connects people to nature, their destinations, and each other through projects, programming, planning, and operations. LGP works to create a community-oriented and highly-used public space. In 2024, LGP reached 18,937 community members with recreation, arts, and cultural programs. The organization hosted 79 free fitness classes throughout the year that was attended by 1,460 local residents. We, partnered with the Crescent City Farmers Market to host New Orleans' largest weekly farms market, and produced arts and cultural events such as the Greenway Supernova light-based art festival, Movies in the Park, Easter Eggstravaganza, and more. Through a monthly e-newsletter and new signage, LGP works to keep the public informed and connected to the Greenway. We also finalized our master plan update for the Broad to Bayou segment of the Greenway.
$233,882 spentof which $730 as grants$18,139 earned by the program56% of program spendingNature - Lafitte Greenway Partnership's Nature Programs work to ensure that the Greenway is a well-maintained ecosystem that is thriving, beautiful, and sustainable. In 2021, LGP launched Greenway Grow, a public campaign and program to care for the Greenway's nature. In 2024, we maintained our Greenway Plaza Raingarden, removed 32,000 sf of non-native trees/bushes from our bioswales, planted 40 trees, and created a new Urban Forestry Academy to provide apprenticeship opportunities to young adults. We held 17 volunteer/education events focused on nature and Green infrastructure which were attended by 518 people.
$136,893 spent33% of program spendingTransportation - Lafitte Greenway Partnership works to grow the Greenway as a transportation connector, safely linking neighborhoods and locations along the trail. In 2023, LGP met regularly with public partners to plan and support the trail completion's implementation, and ensured the Greenway was accessible and more protected for Mardi Gras goers. We engaged with partners in the Complete Streets Coalition to build a more accessible New Orleans. The Greenway trail saw an estimated 500,000 uses in 2024 for transportation and recreation.
$44,519 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $415,294.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $219k to $371k (+69%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 14% · 2023 12% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $117k → $240k.
3 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 65% · 2019 43% · 2020 69% · 2021 44% · 2022 39% · 2023 80% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
52% of Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $497k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $540k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc has grown faster than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc?
- Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,036,504 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($514,100). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,036,504 in grants to Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $514,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing