Our Supporters & Transparency

We are deeply grateful to the generous donors who make Lede New Orleans’ work possible.

Lede New Orleans has received support upward of $5,000 from the following people and organizations:

4.0 Schools Color Congress Cleveland Spears

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Gannett Foundation Hacks/Hackers

Internews Leslie Jacobs Listening Post Collective

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation New Orleans Recreation & Culture Fund

Preservation Hall Foundation Press Forward National TUI Foundation

VELA Education Fund W.K. Kellogg Foundation Walton Family Foundation

Editorial Independence Policy

In addition to our values and practices, we subscribe to the following standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News:

  • Our organization retains full authority over editorial content to protect the best journalistic and business interests of our organization.

  • We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and sources of all revenue.

  • Acceptance of financial support does not constitute implied or actual endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions.

  • We accept gifts, grants and sponsorships from individuals and organizations for the general support of our activities, but our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.

  • Our organization may consider donations to support the coverage of particular topics, but our organization maintains editorial control of the coverage. We will cede no right of review or influence of editorial content, nor of unauthorized distribution of editorial content.

  • Our organization will make public all donors who give a total of $5,000 or more in a year.

Tax Returns & Annual Financials