Louisiana · Public charity
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc
The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge fosters the creative capacity and vibrancy of the capital region through advocacy, resources, and education.
- $142k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $113k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,688
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,875
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $113k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $180k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $158k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $67k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $214k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $139k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $73k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $193k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baton Rouge Blues Festival & Foundation | $422,875 | 9 | 39% |
| Opera Louisiane Inc | $57,867 | 7 | 3% |
| Of Moving Colors Productions | $54,858 | 5 | 11% |
| Kids Orchestra Inc | $54,701 | 8 | 1% |
| Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre | $45,341 | 5 | 2% |
| Friends of the LSU Museum of Art | $40,825 | 4 | 18% |
| Louisiana Library and Book Festival Foundation | $31,377 | 5 | 15% |
| New Venture Theatre | $28,650 | 4 | 27% |
| Hammond Cultural Foundation Inc | $24,916 | 4 | 6% |
| Arts Council of Pointe Coupee | $23,976 | 4 | 10% |
Show all 35 grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · Albemarle Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc with peer funders
About Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc
- How much does Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc give?
- Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $112,658, out of $142,158 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (2%).
- Who are Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Baton Rouge Blues Festival & Foundation ($423k), Opera Louisiane Inc ($58k), Of Moving Colors Productions ($55k).
- Does Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baton Rouge Area Foundation, Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation, The Charles Lamar Family Foundation.
- Where is Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc based?
- Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc is based in LA.
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