Louisiana · Nonprofit
HOME IS HERE NOLA
HOME IS HERE NOLA (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,918 to it, the largest being THE SHAPIRO FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $274k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $998k
- Net assets
- $293k
What Home Is Here Nola does
Mission
Mission is to cultivate community-based systems of support with newly arrived immigrants in the gulf south. Our approach leverages the power of relationship and community to foster personal connections that become the basis for lasting individual, community, and systemic change.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Home is here received 71 referrals for support for housing, legal aid, sponsorship, and/or community support. 54 people were directly connected with resources for housing, legal aid and long-term community support. The organization cultivated relationships 18 new partners ranging from legal immigration service providers, community organizations or groups to increase capacity for direct service support for housing, legal aid and/or systems navigation. Home is here created a network of over 200 established community members to be in relationship with and in support of newly arrived immigrants. Additionally, it engaged in thought leadership and convened multiple trainings and several communities of practice for shared learning and collaboration with partners across the u.s. To build inclusive community-based systems with newly arriving immigrants, in particular for detained trans/lgbtqia immigrants for direct legal services and support needs.
$224,960 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $224,960.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $228k to $330k (+44%).
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 HOME IS HERE NOLA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Lilian Alvarez
Executive director
Board chair
Erika Zucker
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $250k → $82k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 HOME IS HERE NOLA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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
HOME IS HERE NOLA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
40% 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 HOME IS HERE NOLA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
HOME IS HERE NOLA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
HOME IS HERE NOLA is better cushioned than half of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HOME IS HERE NOLA
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOME IS HERE NOLA: 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 HOME IS HERE NOLA?
- HOME IS HERE NOLA (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $997,918 to it, the largest being THE SHAPIRO FOUNDATION ($600,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOME IS HERE NOLA have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $997,918 in grants to HOME IS HERE NOLA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOME IS HERE NOLA?
- THE SHAPIRO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOME IS HERE NOLA 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing