Louisiana · Nonprofit
New Orleans Airlift
New Orleans Airlift (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,096 to it, the largest being AHB FOUNDATION INC ($135,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $481k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $759k
- Net assets
- $614k
What New Orleans Airlift does
Mission
Artistic, cultural, educational and charitable purposes, including an artist-driven initiative that collaborates to inspire wonder, connect communities and foster opportunities through arts education and the creation of public artworks.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Cultural Event Programming of Music Box Houses - The Music Box Houses are comprised of musical art installations which are incorporated into live events. This is done by inviting and hiring hundreds of musicians and performers to create events and shows, attracting thousands of attendees.
$148,108 spent$150,364 earned by the program85% of program spendingPublic Hours Programming at the Music Box Village - Opening the installation to the public, with interpretation by docents, creates a zone for experimental play and hands on learning for all ages.
$22,928 spent$47,291 earned by the program13% of program spendingEducational artistic events connecting communities; creating opportunities for educational art and concerts for charitable purposes.
$2,694 spent$12,316 earned by the program2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $173,730.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.4M to $1.8M (+27%).
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 11% · 2018 6% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of New Orleans Airlift’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Michael Glenboski
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $33k → $42k.
9 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 New Orleans Airlift’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
New Orleans Airlift has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
50% 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 New Orleans Airlift.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 38% · 2019 52% · 2020 35% · 2021 20% · 2022 40% · 2023 36% — 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
35% of New Orleans Airlift's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
New Orleans Airlift draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $366k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
New Orleans Airlift's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding New Orleans Airlift receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $185k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$185k
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 New Orleans Airlift
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
36% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New Orleans Airlift: 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 New Orleans Airlift?
- New Orleans Airlift (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $759,096 to it, the largest being AHB FOUNDATION INC ($135,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Orleans Airlift have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $759,096 in grants to New Orleans Airlift, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Orleans Airlift?
- AHB FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Orleans Airlift 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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