· Public charity
Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc
Fostering art and culture in acadiana - the aca provides education and outreach activities to all ages, grant funds and assistance to nonprofits, and visual art exhibits and performances in a state-of-the-art facility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $98,476 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $189,799 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $91,323 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS | $15,938 |
| BASIN ARTS | $15,788 |
| PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA | $11,438 |
| SOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL | $11,428 |
| LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD | $9,869 |
| ATELIER DE LA NATURE | $8,531 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ACADIANA | $7,800 |
| CITE DES ARTS | $6,732 |
| CAJUN PRAIRIE HABITAT PRESERVCATION | $5,664 |
| TRUE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF LAFAYETTE | $5,288 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 21% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BABasin Arts4× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue +15%
- CMCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA5× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +71%
- SSSOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +243%
Funded once
- IPIBERIA PERFORMING ARTS LEAGUE INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +2%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTEone grant, 2018 · $7k
- HPHERITAGE PARCone grant, 2024 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To promote education in the arts
Present classes, workshops, programs with a focus on highlighting the talents and culture of breaux bridge st martin parish and surrounding regions of louisiana
Provide a venue for exhibiting art.
To promote and educate in the arts
Support liberal arts
The Clay Center of New Orleans is a nonprofit organization that serves to grow support and elevate ceramic art and artists by bringing high-quality ceramic art exhibitions education outreach and professional opportunities to the city of…
To celebrate african cultures through arts & motion pictures
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iberia Cultural Resources Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rural African American Museum Cultural Tourism Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Basin Arts ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Living History Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHORALE ACADIENNE ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CITE DES ARTS ↗
- Who funds ATELIER DE LA NATURE ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NuNu Arts and Culture Collective ↗
- Who funds IBERIA PERFORMING ARTS LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds IBERIA CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM CULTURAL TOURISM CENTER ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · Haynie Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.