Greater New Orleans Development
New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-1177207. Reported 47 grants totalling $4,915,117 to 26 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Greater New Orleans Development, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S300) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 31% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 58% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $52,675. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $129,814; the smallest was $8,575 and the largest $771,257. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohub Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $1,536,257 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership | Baton Rouge, LA | $622,717 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $384,097 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Lafayette, LA | $318,103 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern University at New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $273,848 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| One Acadiana Inc | Lafayette, LA | $209,011 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Green Light New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $195,665 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $188,819 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colab Foundation Inc | Thibodaux, LA | $183,186 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc | New Orleans, LA | $182,380 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nicholls State University | Thibodaux, LA | $133,724 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of Southeast Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Entergy Charitable Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Greater New Orleans Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Parole Project Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $73,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Office of Workforce Development | New Orleans, LA | $68,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Chamber -Southwest Louisiana | Lake Charles, LA | $62,610 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission | Avondale, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Board of Regents | Baton Rouge, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Volunteers of America Inc | New Orleans, LA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Corporate Internship Leadership Institute | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Help Other People Endure Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lower Ninth Ward Center for Sustainable Engagement and Develop | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Urban League of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
14 of 26 (54%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Opportunity Hub
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARD TO DEVELOP/CONTRIBUTE TO EDAH2THEFUTURE SOUTH LOUISIANA COALITION NEXUS PROGRAM- DELIVERY OF H2NEXUS INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM - Baton Rouge Area Chamber
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARD FOR BUSINESS RECRUITMENT AND BRE SERVICES IN BATON ROUGE REGION; PARTICIPATION IN THE NEXUS INDUSTRY COUNCIL, AND SUPPORT ACCROSS THE H2THEFUTURE PROJECTS - University of Louisiana at Lafayette
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARDULL GH2CENTER R&D, STUDENT INSTRUCTION, CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; PARTICIPATION IN THE NEXUS UNIVERSITY COUNCIL - Green Light New Orleans
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARD TO DEVELOP/SUBMIT EDAEXECUTION OF ENERGY EFFICIENT CENTER PROGRAM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL COMMERCIAL EFFICIENCY - University of New Orleans
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARD TO DEVELOP/SUBMITUNO MARITIME CENTER R&D, STUDENT INSTRUCTION, CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; PARTICIPATION IN THE NEXUS UNIVERSITY COUNCIL - One Acadiana Inc
EDA BBB PHASE 2 GRANT SUBAWARD TO DEVELOP/SUBMIT EDABUSINESS RECRUITMENT AND BRE SERVICES IN ACADIANA/LAFAYETTE REGION. PARTICIPATION IN THE NEXUS INDUSTRY COUNCIL
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 26 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | $32,500 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 12 | $332,150 | $18,575 |
| 2023 | 16 | $1,749,486 | $64,300 |
| 2024 | 16 | $2,800,981 | $131,769 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
69% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $52,675 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Greater New Orleans Development's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1100 Poydras Street 3475, New Orleans, LA, 70163.
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