How much did Arts Council of New Orleans grant in FY2024?

Arts Council of New Orleans reported 43 grants totaling $563,415 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Arts Council of New Orleans based?

Arts Council of New Orleans is based in LA.

Arts Council of New Orleans

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· Public charity

Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

$563k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$24k

Largest

01What you fund

0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$583kHuman Services$19kEducation$15kPublic Benefit$10kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$5kOther$163k

02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k16 grants · $113k
$10k–50k27 grants · $407k

$11,536

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

New Orleans Ballet Association$23,909
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra$20,403
Ellis Marsalis Center for Music$18,943
New Orleans Film & Video Society$18,227
KID smART$17,976
Junebug Productions Inc$17,295
Dancing Grounds$16,761
Artivism Dance Theater$16,737
New Orleans African Museum$16,531
Friends of a Studio in the woods$15,973
Tennessee Williams Literary Fest$15,617
Young Audiences of Louisiana$15,268
Make Music NOLA$15,077
Antenna$14,976
ELLA Project$14,473

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23% — the area typically sits at 18%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$301k · 11 repeat orgs$502k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$301k

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+17%

Still filing today

100%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $361k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

NO
New Orleans Ballet Association
2× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +21%
LP
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
2× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +46%
KS
KID smART
2× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +2%

Funded once

JP
Jefferson Performing Arts Soc
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +17%
NO
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +92%
SR
Southern Repertory Theatre
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -81%

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.

New Orleans Culinary &

To create world-class culinary and hospitality facilities, programs, and research that drive workforce and economic development for the new orleans region.

Unclassified

Court 13 Arts

Court 13 arts is a new orleans-based nonprofit arts engine whose mission is to support the creation of adventurous art that inspires the public. by developing innovative spaces to create and exhibit new work, we strive to build and support…

Arts & Culture

Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans

Propeller grows and supports entrepreneurs to tackle social and environmental disparities.

Human Services

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

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Opera Theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities; to foster the next generation; and to make opera accessible and inclusive.

Arts & Culture

University of New Orleans Research and

To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.

Health

Bayou Playhouse Inc

Schedule o

Arts & Culture

Little Theatre of Shreveport

The operation of a community theatre which presents various live theatrical productions to the general public.

Arts & Culture

Community Sailing New Orleans

The advancement of sailing for all by minimizing economic and physical obstacles to sailing.

Recreation & Sports

Backbeat Foundation Inc

The Backbeat Foundation's mission is to foster support of the rich New Orleans cultural heritage through the presentation of innovative arts and music programming and community based events and projects. The Foundation provides resources…

Arts & Culture

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

Nashville Jazz Workshop

To expand people's lives by offering world class jazz education and performance in supportive and creative environments.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Arts & Cultural Host and the most unlike its peers is Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 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 23 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%2/56

the rest of the field

15%

472/3,070

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

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/48

Grantees still filing

38/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$582,900Other$162,629Human Services$18,943Education$14,976Public Benefit$9,880Community Improvement$7,981Health$5,250

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA92.6× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · New Orleans Theatre Association Inc · Goldring Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · South Arts Inc · The Helis Foundation · Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities · The Azby Fund · Foundation for Louisiana

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 organisation Arts Council of New Orleans 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Stage to Stage Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 721319092 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Stage to Stage Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 42% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Arts Council of New Orleans?

Find your warmest path to Arts Council of New Orleans through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Arts Council of New Orleans

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts Council of New Orleans?

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Arts Council of New Orleans

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Arts Council of New Orleans?

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