Louisiana · Nonprofit
New Orleans Youth Alliance
New Orleans Youth Alliance (Louisiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,212,572 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($2,615,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What New Orleans Youth Alliance does
Mission
Guided by our community and grounded in racial equity intersectional equity and youth leadership New Orleans Youth Alliance fosters youth-centered policies and cultivates a system of high-quality well-resourced youth development organizations with the intent to drive the transformation of systems to better serve youth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
New Orleans Youth Alliance Reengagement Center continues to work to reconnect youth 16-24 who are disconnected from work and school. NOYA successfully reduced the disconnection rate by 5% across the work of our collaborative. The REC provided outreach engagement and services totaling over 900 service hours to 247 young people. We successfully reconnected and prevented the disconnection of 92 young people to postsecondary education. The Functional Zero Opportunity Youth collaborative was expanded to 18 members including workforce development leaders like JOB1 and Ochsner Healthcare. With Childrens Bureau of New Orleans we co-designed a Mental Health Community Worker pathway to increase mental health assistance
$412,121 spent$275,000 earned by the program41% of program spendingThe New Orleans Youth Alliance NOLA-YPQI worked with New Orleans youth development organizations to take part in our YPQI assessments to evaluate and improve their programs. Assessments measure four aspects of programming: Safe Environment Supportive Environment Interaction and Engagement. These domains roughly mirror Maslows Hierarchy of needs with a Safe Environment equating to physiological needs and Engagement being similar to self-actualization. Last year YPQI partners saw a 10% increase in Engagement scores which is significant. Youth organizations here are beating national averages in Engagement,and we have achieved our highest Engagement scores as a network ever
$251,294 spent$168,873 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe Opportunity Youth Forum seeks to scale multiple solutions that improve outcomes in education careers and well-being for Opportunity Youth. The Forum provides funding to bolster cross system and sector collaborative efforts in communities aimed at improving outcomes for youth and young adults. It implements additional grantmaking strategies that tie to a learning agenda evidence and field building and narrative and systems change. The purpose of this grant is to support the work of the New Orleans Youth Alliance its co-backbone partner the New Orleans Children and Youth Planning Board and partners in the New Orleans Opportunity Youth Collaborative to foster belonging meaning and purpose as the north star for the rising generation with a focus on reforming the systems meant to support youth and young adults.
$341,759 spent$225,000 earned by the program34% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,005,174.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.5M to $2.3M (+52%).
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: 2021 4% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
James Dabney
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $261k → $1.3M.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 Youth Alliance’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 Youth Alliance leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 88% · 2020 34% · 2021 46% · 2022 42% · 2023 50% — 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
50% of New Orleans Youth Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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 Youth Alliance draws 89% 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. $397k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like New Orleans Youth Alliance
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Youth Alliance: 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 Youth Alliance?
- New Orleans Youth Alliance (Louisiana) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,212,572 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($2,615,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New Orleans Youth Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $6,212,572 in grants to New Orleans Youth Alliance, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New Orleans Youth Alliance?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,615,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New Orleans Youth Alliance 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 2021–2025), 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