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Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES is a non-profit organization whose mission is to partner with communities, institutions, and individuals to explore louisiana's past, reflect on our present, and imagine our future.

$312k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
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 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.4MEducation$258kCivil Rights$76kEnvironment$35kSocial Science$27kEmployment$25kPhilanthropy$15kCrime & Legal$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $224,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $312,088 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $88,088 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 $10k9 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $154k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHITNEY INSTITUTE$19,000
WEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$15,000
UNITED HOUMA NATION INC$15,000
TANGIPAHOA AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE MUSEUM & VETERANS ARCHIVES$15,000
JENA BAND OF CHOCTAW INDIANS$10,000
NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL$10,000
BATON ROUGE GALLERY$10,000
NOUS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
SOUTHERN FOREST HERITAGE MUSEUM AND RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
THE BLACK SCHOOL$10,000
ALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE LA NOUVELLEORLEANS$10,000
INTERNATIONAL PETROLEUM MUSEUM & EXPOSITION INC$10,000
IBERIA CULTURAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION$10,000
LGBT ARCHIVES PROJECT OF LOUISIANA$9,000
BANNERS AT MCNEESE$8,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%OPERATION RESTORATION: $15k → 23%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 49 repeat orgs$847k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
72

Total granted

$1.3M
$769k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+5%

Still filing today

71%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • AC
    ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +231%
  • SF
    Southern Forest Hertiage Museum
    5× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +41%
  • TA
    THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • RR
    RIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue -22%
  • LS
    LA STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +5%
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 Area Historical Museum Inc

To conserve and display artifacts of significance historically to the Louisiana, Missouri, area, for study, education, and enjoyment and to preserve the integrity of Louisiana artifacts.

Arts & Culture
2
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
3
New Orleans African American Museum of Art Culture and History

The mission of the New Orleans African American Museum is to preserve, interpret and promote the African American cultural heritage of New Orleans, with a particular emphasis on the Tremé community.

Arts & Culture
4
Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Located in the vibrant Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art holds the larges and most comprehensive collection of southern art and is recognized for its original exhibitions, public…

Arts & Culture
5
Lincoln Parish Museum & Historical Society

To provide history of lincoln parish and exhibit arts of the parish to its citizens and visitors to the area.

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6
Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
7
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
8
Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame Foundation

To preserve, celebrate and educate the public on the rich political history of louisiana, through stewardship of historical artifacts, engaging exhibits and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
9
Louisiana Swamp Watch Inc

Educate public on special interest in Louisiana

Public Benefit
10
Lafayette Historical Society Inc

Local History Museum

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11
Provenance Institute for the Arts Culture and Environment
Arts & Culture
12
Donaldsonville Area Foundation

Organization is committed to the preservation of historic donaldsonville, louisiana

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friends of the Cabildo Inc; the most unlike its peers is Zigler Museum Foundation. 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

103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 129 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/103
Grantees still filing
68/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Southern Forest Hertiage Museum: $41,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $39,914 · Arts & CultureWEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureMaritime Museum Louisiana: $35,540 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC RADIO INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WHITNEY INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePOINTE COUPEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $34,500 · Arts & Culture+45 more: $677,476 · Arts & Culture+45 moreCOUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA: $48,231 · OtherACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $45,000 · OtherUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $40,000 · OtherHARK: $33,000 · OtherNORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL: $32,000 · Other+59 more: $746,600 · Other+59 moreLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $39,000 · EducationLOUISIANA…Antenna: $32,000 · EducationAntennaAlexandria Museum of Art LLC: $27,300 · EducationAlexandri…THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $23,000 · EducationTHE ADMIN…LEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC: $22,000 · EducationLEONA TAT…MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 · EducationMCNEESE S…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $11,300 · EducationXAVIER UN…Festivals Acadiens Et Creoles: $8,000 · EducationNOUS FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · InternationalONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS: $25,000 · Public BenefitOPERATION RESTORATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesPRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN GREATER NEW ORLEANS SECTION INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$935,930Other$944,831Education$178,600International$26,000Public Benefit$25,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSouthern Forest Hertiage Museum: $41,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER: $39,914 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetWEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC: $37,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetMaritime Museum Louisiana: $35,540 over 4y, 32% of budgetPUBLIC RADIO INC: $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WHITNEY INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPOINTE COUPEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $34,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetNORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL: $32,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetAntenna: $32,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHENNAULT AVIATION & MILITARY MUSEUM OF LOUISIANA INC: $30,385 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetRIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of the LSU Museum of Art: $29,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAlexandria Museum of Art LLC: $27,300 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC: $26,800 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNOUS FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS: $25,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetLA STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE LA NOUVELLE-0RLEANS: $25,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $23,900 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetLEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC: $22,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetRegional Military Museum Foundation: $21,931 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetRed River Film Society Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetZIGLER MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetBaton Rouge Gallery Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetRIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY: $20,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $18,300 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetACADIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLONGUE VUE HOUSE & GARDENS: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,600 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetEMY LOU BIEDENHARN FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival: $15,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNORTHEAST LA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC: $14,762 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEAST-WEST FOUNDATION: $14,350 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetNuNu Arts and Culture Collective: $14,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUS Biennial Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Foundation for Louisi…Baton Rouge Area Foun…Keep Louisiana Beauti…Community Foundation …Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Acadiana Center for t…Arts Council of Great…Freeman-Woollam Found…The Almar Foundationd…Baptist Community Min…Community Foundation …
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA56.8× affinity33 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Keep Louisiana Beautiful Foundationinc · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc · Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inc · Freeman-Woollam Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Community Foundation of North Louisiana

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 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    23report 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
    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 129 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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