Louisiana · Nonprofit
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,645,828 to it, the largest being Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 ($1,330,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared funderslocal
- Forward Impactportfolio match
- The Just Trust for Educationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 32% · 2018 24% · 2019 24% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 65% · 2023 33% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $510k → $1.0M.
22 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
55% 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 INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 34% · 2020 14% · 2021 17% · 2022 19% · 2023 17% — 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
55% of INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS'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
INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared funderslocalLA · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- Forward Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sentencing Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary Freeman Wisdom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Nonviolenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundationshared fundersLA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Southeast Louisianashared fundersLA · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Baton Rouge Area Foundationshared fundersLA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Goldring Family Foundationshared fundersLA · backs 91 organizations that share your funders
- Freedom Together Foundationshared fundersNY · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS?
- INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,645,828 to it, the largest being Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 ($1,330,000). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $6,645,828 in grants to INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS?
- Lakeshore Foundation dated April 5 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $1,330,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INNOCENCE PROJECT 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.
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 62funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing