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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.

$190k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$484kEnvironment$30kPublic Benefit$18kRecreation & Sports$7k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $98,476, the rows itemized in this filing. The $189,799 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $91,323 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$9,869
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA: $13k → 17%CAJUN PRAIRIE HABITAT PRESERVCATION: $6k → 19%VERMILION ARTS COUNCIL: $6k → 21%IBERIA CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSOC: $6k → 23%EVANGELINE PARISH LIBRARY: $5k → 24%CITY OF FRANKLIN: $6k → 25%ATELIER DE LA NATURE: $9k → 28%PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA: $12k → 17%CAJUN PRAIRIE HABITAT PRESERVCATION: $5k → 19%CITY OF FRANKLIN: $6k → 25%NUNU ARTS AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE: $6k → 28%PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA: $11k → 17%ATELIER DE LA NATURE: $5k → 28%ASOCIACION CULTURAL LATION ACADIANA: $6k → 17%PERFORMING ARTS SERVING ACADIANA: $6k → 17%VERMILIONVILLE LIVING HISTORY MUSEU: $9k → 17%TOWN OF WASHINGTON: $6k → 28%VERMILIONVILLE LIVING HISTORY MUSEU: $8k → 17%VERMILIONVILLE LIVING HISTORY MUSEU: $7k → 17%FESTIVAL OF WORKDS CULTURAL ARTS CO: $6k → 28%FREETOWN STUDIOS: $6k → 17%FESTIVAL OF WORKDS CULTURAL ARTS CO: $6k → 28%VERMILIONVILLE LIVING HISTORY MUSEU: $6k → 17%LA FOLK ROOTS INC: $6k → 17%VERM LIVING HIST MUSEUM FD: $6k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $5k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT: $7k → 17%LAFAYETTE ART ASSOCIATION: $6k → 17%BASIN ARTS: $21k → 17%BASIN ARTS: $16k → 17%BASIN ARTS: $15k → 17%BASIN ARTS: $14k → 17%LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD: $10k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $9k → 17%LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC: $8k → 17%LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD: $8k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $8k → 17%LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC: $8k → 17%HERITAGE PARC: $7k → 17%LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD: $7k → 17%LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC: $7k → 17%TRUE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF LAFAYETTE: $6k → 17%LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD: $6k → 17%ASSOC CULTURAL LATINO ACADIA: $6k → 17%TRUE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF LAFAYETTE: $5k → 17%CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $5k → 17%LOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD INC: $5k → 17%COCO TRIBE OF CANNECI TINNE: $7k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$477k · 16 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$477k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
0%

Still filing today

69%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    Basin Arts
    4× · 2022–2025 · $67k · revenue +15%
  • CM
    CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA
    5× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +71%
  • SS
    SOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • IP
    IBERIA PERFORMING ARTS LEAGUE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • HP
    HERITAGE PARC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Louisiana Art and Artists' Guild

Art/artist guild

Arts & Culture
2
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
3
Mcgregor-Marquette Center for the Arts Inc

Art education art venue for area artists

Arts & Culture
4
Bayou Playhouse Inc

Schedule o

Arts & Culture
5
African Diasporic Arts and Education Inc
Arts & Culture
6
Louisiana Partnership for the Arts

Support liberal arts

Arts & Culture
7
Tekrema Center for Art and Culture

Maintenance and development of art

Arts & Culture
8
Southwest Artist Inc

Provide a venue for exhibiting art.

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9
The African Film Festival

To celebrate african cultures through arts & motion pictures

—
10
Acadian Heritage & Culture Foundation Inc

To educate public about traditional cajun folk culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
12
Lower Alabama Arts Coalition Inc

To promote and educate in the arts

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nunu Arts and Culture Collective Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Basin Arts: $67,007 · Arts & CultureBasin ArtsLOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC: $65,246 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INCCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $64,034 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANASOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INC: $43,153 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INCAcadiana Living History Foundation Inc: $40,806 · Arts & CultureAcadiana Living History Foundation IncCHORALE ACADIENNE: $38,077 · Arts & CultureCHORALE ACADIENNELOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD INC: $35,670 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD INCCITE DES ARTS: $19,408 · Arts & CultureATELIER DE LA NATURE: $18,938 · Arts & CultureLAFAYETTE ART ASSOCIATION: $16,963 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $18,114 · Arts & CultureCITY OF FRANKLIN: $12,000 · OtherCITY OF FRANKLINTRUE FRIENDS SOCIETY OF LAFAYETTE: $11,701 · OtherTRUE FRIENDS SOCIETY O…ASOCIACION CULTURAL LATINO ACADIANA: $11,576 · OtherASOCIACION CULTURAL LA…FESTIVAL OF WORDS CULTURAL ARTS COLLECTIVE: $11,156 · OtherFESTIVAL OF WORDS CULT…CAJUN PRAIRIE HABITAT PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $10,880 · OtherCAJUN PRAIRIE HABITAT …UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE: $7,126 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIAN…HERITAGE PARC: $7,031 · OtherHERITAGE PARCCANNECI TINNE APACHE TRIBE: $6,750 · OtherCANNECI TINNE APACHE T…FREETOWN STUDIOS INC: $6,140 · OtherFREETOWN STUDIOS INCTOWN OF WASHINGTON: $5,625 · OtherVERMILION ARTS COUNCIL INC: $5,625 · OtherIBERIA CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION INC: $5,625 · OtherEVANGELINE PARISH LIBRARY: $5,229 · OtherRURAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM CULTURAL TOURISM CENTER: $5,016 · Education
Arts & Culture$427,416Other$106,464Education$5,016

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100kgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBasin Arts: $67,007 over 4y, 11% of budgetLOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC: $65,246 over 7y, 14% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF ACADIANA: $64,034 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetSOUTHERN SCREEN FILM FESTIVAL INC: $43,153 over 4y, 19% of budgetAcadiana Living History Foundation Inc: $40,806 over 5y, 38% of budgetCHORALE ACADIENNE: $38,077 over 5y, 17% of budgetLOUISIANA CRAFTS GUILD INC: $35,670 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCITE DES ARTS: $19,408 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetATELIER DE LA NATURE: $18,938 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetLAFAYETTE ART ASSOCIATION: $16,963 over 3y, 71% of budgetNuNu Arts and Culture Collective: $10,614 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetIBERIA PERFORMING ARTS LEAGUE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetIBERIA CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION INC: $5,625 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Louisiana Endowment f…Haynie Family Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of AcadianaLA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Acadiana · Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · Haynie Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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