Louisiana · Nonprofit
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,530,418 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($610,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $640k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $570k
What Transport for Nola Dba Ride New Orleans does
Mission
Our mission is to enhance quality of life in the new orleans region by promoting safe, convenient and affordable transportation choices.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Transit rider outreach: we work directly with transit riders via our rider-led organizing arm, the coalition for quality transit. Meeting monthly, the coalition for quality transit determines priority areas for improvement in new orleans transit and works to implement the desired changes. The coalition for quality transit is staffed by ride new orleans staff and consists of transit riders and supporters, businesses, affordable housing advocates, public health leaders, environmental stewards, and community leaders, all working together to strengthen new orleans transit, to reduce congestion and pollution, improve mobility, bolster economic growth, and increase access to opportunity for all new orleanians.
$115,900 spent48% of program spendingResearch and analysis: we release annual "state of the transit system" reports that analyze strengths and weaknesses in new orleans region transit and make recommendations for improvements. The 2021 report highlighted important steps forward for regional transit like more transparent and responsive governance and the start of a realistic planning process that could bring specific improvements in as soon as a few years. But the report also showed the stark disparity between residents who rely on transit and residents who can afford private auto transportation. The average new orleanian with a car can reach 89 percent of the region's jobs in 30 minutes or less but if that same new orleanian is reliant on transit she would only be able to reach on average - 12 percent of the region's jobs. In a city with a high poverty rate, a high unemployment rate, and a high rate of carless households, this is a challenge that must be overcome in order to provide more equitable access to economic opportunity.
$21,731 spent9% of program spendingEducational outreach: we partner with community organizations to create events and materials to help transit riders and the community-at-large effectively engage in the transit decision-making process. Among other items, in 2021, we helped local residents to engage in the "new links" regional transit network redesign process and helped riders secure needed improvements to the main downtown new orleans bus transfer area.
$103,827 spent43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $241,458.
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 2024 to 2025, from $241k to $572k (+137%).
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 TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS’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. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $209k → $337k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE 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
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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: 2017 96% · 2018 68% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 66% · 2022 72% · 2023 74% — 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
80% of TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS?
- TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS (Louisiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,530,418 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($610,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,530,418 in grants to TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE NEW ORLEANS?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRANSPORT FOR NOLA DBA RIDE 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 11 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