· Private foundation
George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $4,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUE OF CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +50%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +5%
University of Chicago2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- LALA A SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2017 · $410k · revenue -69% · 72% of their budget
- NONEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +11%
- MCMississippi Collegeone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue +23%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 211 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LA A SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS CULINARY & HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Mississippi College ↗
- Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds CENTENARY COLLEGE OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds SWOLLFEST INC ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Oscar J Tolmas Charitable Trust · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · The Scott Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Rodrigue Foundation of the Arts Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Promise Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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