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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$1.1MEducation$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $112,658 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $142,158 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $29,500 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 $10k8 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
$8,688
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Baton Rouge Blues Foundation$44,875
Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre$13,000
Baton Rouge Little Theatre$9,563
Individual grant recipient$9,031
Arts Council of Pointee Coupe$8,688
Kids Orchestra$5,969
Chez Fab Arts and Community$5,625
Baton Rouge Gallery$5,469
Palacios House of Arts$5,250
Louisiana Library Foundation$5,188
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 93% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASCENSION COMMUNITY THEATRE: $10k → 10%WEST BATON ROUGE MUSEUM: $10k → 12%CHANSON INC: $9k → 13%Arts Council of Pointee Coupe: $10k → 17%OF MOVING COLORS: $14k → 19%TANGIPIHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM: $7k → 20%WASHINGTON PARISH LIBRARY: $6k → 23%ASCENSION COMMUNITY THEATRE: $6k → 10%CHANSON INC: $7k → 13%Arts Council of Pointee Coupe: $9k → 17%LOUISIANA ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM: $10k → 19%TANGIPAHOA VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 20%Washington Parish Library: $6k → 23%ASCENSION PARISH LIBRARY: $6k → 10%WALKER FRESHMAN HIGH: $6k → 13%Of Moving Colors: $9k → 19%TANGIPAHOA VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 20%RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $7k → 10%LA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $9k → 19%Of Moving Colors: $8k → 19%Baton Rouge Symphny Orchestra: $6k → 19%LOUISIANA ART AND SCIENCE MUSEUM: $6k → 19%Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre: $13k → 19%Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre: $13k → 19%Baton Rouge Gallery: $9k → 19%BATON ROUGE GALLERY: $7k → 19%Palacios House of Arts: $6k → 19%BATON ROUGE BLUES FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%FRIENDS OF LSU MUSEUM OF ART: $13k → 19%FRIENDS OF LSU MUSEUM OF ART: $11k → 19%Manship Theatre: $8k → 19%MANSHIP THEATRE: $8k → 19%LSU MUSEUM OF ART: $6k → 19%OF MOVING COLORS: $15k → 19%THEATRE BATON ROUGE: $12k → 19%NEW VENTURE THEATRE: $9k → 19%NEW VENTURE THEATRE: $9k → 19%Kids Orchestra: $8k → 19%FORWARD ARTS INC: $8k → 19%FORWARD ARTS INC: $6k → 19%Kids Orchestra: $6k → 19%NEW VENTURE THEATRE: $6k → 19%PARK FOREST MIDDLE SCHOOL: $10k → 19%BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $9k → 19%Baton Rouge Little Theatre: $10k → 19%Baton Rouge Little Theatre: $8k → 19%LINE4LINE: $10k → 19%LINE 4 LINE: $7k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 25 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$1.0M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+26%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • BR
    BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL & FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +10% · 39% of their budget
  • OL
    OPERA LOUISIANE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +16%
  • BR
    Baton Rouge Ballet Theatre
    5× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • BR
    Baton Rouge Little Theater Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -36%
  • WB
    WEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • EB
    EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SD
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Teche Center for 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

Arts & Culture
2
Louisiana Partnership for the Arts

Support liberal arts

Arts & Culture
3
Bayou Playhouse Inc

Schedule o

Arts & Culture
4
Friends of Arts Council of Greater Denham Springs Inc

To promote the diverse artistic and cultural resources of Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Support established and emerging artistic endeavors and stimulate public support for the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
6
Baton Rouge Symphony League Inc

Baton Rouge Symphony League, Inc. serves the interest of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra by fostering music appreciation among children and adults and by giving volunteer service and financial support to the Louisiana Symphony…

Arts & Culture
7
Nola Trb

At Home in New Orleans, we devoted to making work that is outsize in scope, physically evocative, socially provocative, and couched in humor as a vehicle for storytelling. We function in service of artists by putting the full weight of our…

Arts & Culture
8
Performing Arts Serving Acadiana Inc Pasa

Provide local access to performances by nationally and internationally known artists, associated educational outreach and residency activities and paid performance opportunities for local performing artists

Arts & Culture
9
Paris Community Theater

Paris Community Theatre is dedicated to producing high-quality entertainment that engages, inspires, educates, and transforms. Through the arts, we provide cultural enrichment, creative development, and opportunities for self-discovery. We…

Arts & Culture
10
Createlouisiana

#CreateLouisiana champions Southern talent in the film + media space, supports the entertainment industries that are integral to the region, and fosters a sustainable creative economy for a homegrown cultural workforce. Through…

Arts & Culture
11
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival

The Festival's mission is threefold; to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs to nurture, support and showcase regional, national, and international writers, actors, musicians and other artists.

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12
Louisiana Art and Artists' Guild

Art/artist guild

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baton Rouge Little Theater Inc and the most unlike its peers is Palacios House of Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr15%17%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr15%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr17%63%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 21% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/35
the rest of the field
21%
751/3,510

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 41 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL & FOUNDATION — $422,875 · Arts & CultureBATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL & FOUNDATIONOPERA LOUISIANE INC — $57,867 · Arts & CultureOPERA LOUISIANE INCKIDS ORCHESTRA INC — $54,701 · Arts & CultureKIDS ORCHESTRA INCBaton Rouge Ballet Theatre — $45,341 · Arts & CultureBaton Rouge Ballet TheatreFriends of the LSU Museum of Art — $40,825 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $212,277 · Arts & Culture+14 moreOF MOVING COLORS PRODUCTIONS — $54,858 · OtherOF MOVING COLORS PRODUCTIO…New Venture Theatre — $28,650 · OtherNew Venture TheatreLOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $20,743 · OtherLOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIA…Forward Arts Inc — $19,547 · OtherForward Arts IncBaton Rouge Little Theatre — $18,001 · OtherBaton Rouge Little TheatreIndividual grant recipient — $16,656 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTANGIPAHOA VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $12,372 · OtherTANGIPAHOA PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM — $12,316 · OtherWASHINGTON PARISH — $12,281 · OtherTANGIPAHOA TALENTED THEATRE — $10,659 · OtherEAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SD — $10,000 · Other+9 more — $50,664 · Other+9 moreLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $31,377 · EducationSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM — $5,063 · Education
Arts & Culture$833,886Other$266,747Education$36,440

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBATON ROUGE BLUES FESTIVAL & FOUNDATION — $422,875 over 9y, 39% of budgetOPERA LOUISIANE INC — $57,867 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetOF MOVING COLORS PRODUCTIONS — $54,858 over 5y, 11% of budgetKIDS ORCHESTRA INC — $54,701 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBaton Rouge Ballet Theatre — $45,341 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFriends of the LSU Museum of Art — $40,825 over 4y, 18% of budgetLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $31,377 over 5y, 15% of budgetNew Venture Theatre — $28,650 over 4y, 27% of budgetHAMMOND CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC — $24,916 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF POINTE COUPEE — $23,976 over 4y, 10% of budgetDOUGLAS MANSHIP SR THEATRE COMPLEX HOLDING INC — $21,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBaton Rouge Gallery Inc — $21,231 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLOUISIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DBA BATON ROUGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $20,743 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetForward Arts Inc — $19,547 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetLOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC — $16,513 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLINE 4 LINE — $16,375 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetPALACIOS HOUSE OF ARTS — $15,963 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetBaton Rouge Little Theater Inc — $11,602 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $10,406 over 1y, 23% of budgetRIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY — $7,122 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFoundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting — $5,625 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT — $5,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTANGIPAHOA FEDERATION OF TEACHERS LOCAL 3572 — $5,063 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM — $5,063 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Baton Rouge Area Foun…Irene W & Cb Penningt…The Charles Lamar Fam…Louisiana Endowment f…Albemarle FoundationRotary Club of Baton …The Merice Boo Johnst…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…The Credit Bureau of …Capital Area United W…Shell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Baton Rouge Area FoundationLA31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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