LEDE NEW ORLEANS INC

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

B90

Classification

2000

Street

309 S MURAT ST APT B

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• A NEWS INITIATIVE THAT BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG ADULTS, JOURNALISTS AND ARTISTS TO PRODUCE EQUITABLE, COMMUNITY-DRIVEN MEDIA IN NEW ORLEANS.

  Expenses $289,818

• In 2025, Lede New Orleans focused the majority of itsCommunity Reporting Fellowship efforts on a comprehensive program redesign to better meetthe needs of emerging storytellers and the communities they serve.? Lede extended the fellowship duration from 16 weeks to up to 24 weeks to allow fordeeper skill-building, reporting, and editorial support.? The organization enhanced training and coaching infrastructure and leveraged grantfunding to engage experienced media professionals to lead key aspects of the program,including editorial workflow oversight by a Senior Editor.? These changes were designed to strengthen reporting quality, reduce time pressure onfellows, and align program pacing more closely with community-centered journalismpractices.Following this redesign, the Community Reporting Fellowship relaunched in September 2025with a cohort of five fellows.? Fellows are currently receiving training and producing original reporting focused on localhousing issues in New Orleans.? Training will conclude in March 2026, with stories scheduled for publication in spring2026.While the fellowship was undergoing redesign, Lede marked its programmatic legacy bypartnering with The Front Gallery to present Five Years Forward, a live public exhibithighlighting five years of Community Reporting Fellowship work.? The exhibit featured journalism produced by past fellows on topics including mentalhealth, food access, and Black maternal health.? This project celebrated the growth of emerging storytellers and highlighted the long-termimpact of community-based reporting in New Orleans.

• In 2025, Lede New Orleans expanded its publicengagement work by hosting four community events, engaging more than 225 New Orleansresidents through documentary screenings, panel discussions, and a public storytelling exhibit.? Events centered Black and Brown New Orleanians and created accessible, trustedspaces for civic dialogue and learning.? Evaluation data showed:? 75% of attendees reported learning new, useful information.? 50% of Community Reporting Fellows reported forming meaningful newcommunity connections through their reporting and public engagement work.This work was supported by a $75,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation, awarded in2024, which Lede leveraged in 2025 to pilot new engagement models.As part of this investment, Lede launched Co-Lede, its first-ever community journalismcommunity of practice open to residents of all ages.? Through monthly sessions, participants explored issues affecting their neighborhoodswhile learning foundational journalism skills such as interviewing, fact-checking, andresearch.? Co-Lede expanded access to the information-making process and advanced Ledesvision of a participatory, community-powered local media ecosystem.

• In 2025, Lede New Orleans invested in organizationalstability and editorial quality by retaining and strengthening key program staff and contractorroles critical to its mission.? Lede retained core roles including its Fellowship Coordinator, Engagement Coordinatorand Operations Coordinator ensuring continuity in program design and support, and inadministrative and financial processes and oversight.? The organization hired a part-time Senior Editor to provide additional editorial oversightand strengthen the quality, accuracy, and rigor of content produced through theCommunity Reporting Fellowship.? Lede also engaged three professional mentors to support fellows reporting andmultimedia production, providing subject-matter expertise, coaching, and feedbackthroughout the fellowship cycle.These capacity-building investments strengthened Ledes ability to deliver high-qualityjournalism, support emerging storytellers, and sustain its programs with consistency and care.

• In November 2025, Lede piloted a new live storytelling event featuring five localspeakers sharing stories of home to an audience of more than 50 locals.? Lede was awarded a $100,000 grant from Press Forward in 2024, recognizing theorganizations role in addressing gaps in local news coverage and strengtheningcommunity-led journalism in New Orleans.? Lede and two of our fellowship alumni were featured on the Voices of I Am New Orleansaudio series funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.? Lede and five fellowship alumni partnered with Be Loud Studios to support editing andmentorship for local high schoolers working on audio stories about their perspectives onHurricane Katrina and its impact.

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $263,073

  Expenses

  $359,953

  Contributions

  $263,073

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $653,075

  Expenses

  $482,509

  Contributions

  $653,075

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,053,075

  Expenses

  $482,509

  Contributions

  $1,053,075

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $369,421

  Expenses

  $387,014

  Contributions

  $369,421

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $427,726

  Expenses

  $128,945

  Contributions

  $427,726

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2025 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2024 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2023 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2022 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $44,656

  Expenses

  $20,695

  Assets (EOY)

  $23,961

• 2021 · 990-T

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  — not reported

  Assets (EOY)

  — not reported

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA

  $225,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• INTERNEWS NETWORK

  $49,500

  2024 · MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $45,000

  2023 · GENERAL OPERATING

• COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION

  $45,000

  2022 · GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $25,000

  2023 · ARTS/CULTURE

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $11,109

  2024 · ARTS/CULTURE

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · ARTS/CULTURE

• INTERNEWS NETWORK

  $5,500

  2023 · MEDIA DEVELOPMENT

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