Louisiana · Nonprofit
GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS
GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,135 to it, the largest being GREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($195,665). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $456k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $746k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Green Light New Orleans does
Mission
Green Light New Orleans provides sustainable solutions to individual homes and encourages collective action to create a more resilient community, one household at a time, by installing rain barrels, backyard vegetable gardens and distributing free energy efficient light bulbs. Programs employ a full non-discrimination policy and prioritize low-income communities in new orleans, la as they are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, Green Light installed approximately 350 rain barrels for 240 household, for a collective potential diversion of 17,500 gallons of rainwater per storm event, alleviating local flooding, reducing stress on the stormwater system, and allowing residents to collect water for nonpotable uses. Each resident was provided a copy of Rain Barrel Practice and Culture, an educational book on local challenges and solutions to flooding, stormwater management, and water conservation.
$216,599 spentof which $319,237 as grants71% of program spendingIn 2025, Green Light New Orleans partnered with the STEM Library lab to provide educational resources for local schools. Through the rain barrel service learning project, 139 barrels were sent to classrooms for service learning and education on topics of weather, climate, green infrastructure, environmental science, and civic engagement.
$54,119 spentof which $91,211 as grants18% of program spendingThe Southface grant culminated in December 2025 and included weatherization and energy efficiency improvements to te Green Light property. The H20 the Future grant is a multiyear grant that continues into 2026, providing attic insulation for a limited number of residents, and development of carbon capture methodology related to the rain barrel program and weatherization activities. In 2025, four residents were provided with attic insulation and solar panels were obtained for Green Light New Orleans.
$36,029 spentof which $45,605 as grants12% of program spendingIn 2025, 865 volunteers were engaged in 2800 hours of service supporting Green Lights mission to provide low cost residential level green infrastructure (rain barrels) as a solution to local flooding and climate challenges. Volunteers upcycled food grade barrels to become functional environmental art, each uniquely painted and provided to applicants at a sliding scale cost share. Each volunteer is educated on the mission, purpose, benefits, and impact of the program. Independent Sector Value of Volunteer Time in 2025 was $34.79, for a total of $97,412 contributed volunteer time for Green Light New Orleans.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $306,747.
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 2021 to 2022, from $152k to $659k (+334%).
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.
100% of GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $53k → $116k.
4 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS’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
GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 60% · 2019 55% · 2020 80% · 2021 79% · 2022 89% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
84% of GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $244k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS has grown faster than half of the 2,433 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS?
- GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $746,135 to it, the largest being GREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ($195,665). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $746,135 in grants to GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS?
- GREATER NEW ORLEANS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $195,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN LIGHT NEW ORLEANS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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