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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.

$579k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 45% of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 41 grants below total $444,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $578,956 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $134,356 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $366k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS DISCOVERY CENTER$25,000
EAST CARROLL PARISH LIBRARY$20,000
LAFOURCHE PARISH PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
OPERATION RESTORATION$15,000
OLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION$15,000
NATCHITOCHES TRIBE OF LOUISIANA$14,900
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES$14,000
NUNU ARTS AND CULTURE COLLECTIVE$14,000
THE IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM$11,800
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA$11,300
ZYDECO HISTORICAL AND PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC$10,000
ACADIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
POINTE COUPEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
ONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS$10,000
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE JOHN B CADE LIBRARY$10,000
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:

Your 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 your 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

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 44 repeat orgs$833k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
58

Total granted

$1.1M
$608k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • AC
    ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +231%
  • TA
    THE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +23%
  • MM
    Maritime Museum Louisiana
    4× · 2020–2023 · $36k · revenue ×15 · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • RR
    RIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
  • LS
    LA STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCEgraduated
    2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +39%

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
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
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
3
Lsu Research Foundation
Community Improvement
4
Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
5
New Orleans Geological Society Memorial Foundation
Education
6
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
7
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
8
Louisiana Swamp Watch Inc

Educate public on special interest in Louisiana

Public Benefit
9
Lafayette Historical Society Inc

Local History Museum

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10
Louisiana Art and Artists' Guild

Art/artist guild

Arts & Culture
11
Louisiana Architecture Foundation

To advance architecture in Louisiana

Education
12
New Orleans Architecture Foundation

The new orleans architecture foundation supports and collaborates with aia new orleans on education and advocacy activities that enhance public appreciation of architecture and design as vital community assets that enrich the quality of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisiana Art & Science Museuminc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr14%12%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr16%19%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/150
the rest of the field
17%
2,398/13,898

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

100 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. 100 of the 121 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
95/100
Grantees still filing
66/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANA — $48,231 · OtherCOUSHATTA TRIBE OF LOUISIANAACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $45,000 · OtherRIVER ROAD HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $30,000 · OtherTHE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSES — $30,000 · OtherEAST CARROLL PARISH LIBRARY — $30,000 · Other+55 more — $684,600 · Other+55 moreTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER — $39,914 · Arts & CultureMaritime Museum Louisiana — $35,540 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC RADIO INC — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePOINTE COUPEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $34,500 · Arts & CultureSouthern Forest Hertiage Museum — $31,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE CHENNAULT AVIATION & MILITARY MUSEUM OF LOUISIANA INC — $30,385 · Arts & CultureLOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUMINC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the LSU Museum of Art — $29,000 · Arts & Culture+41 more — $565,591 · Arts & Culture+41 moreAntenna — $32,000 · EducationLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $31,000 · EducationAlexandria Museum of Art LLC — $27,300 · EducationLEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC — $22,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $15,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $11,300 · EducationMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · EducationONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS — $25,000 · Public BenefitNOUS FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · InternationalOPERATION 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
Other$867,831Arts & Culture$830,930Education$146,600Public Benefit$25,000International$16,000Human Services$15,000Community Improvement$15,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $45,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE AMISTAD RESEARCH CENTER — $39,914 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMaritime Museum Louisiana — $35,540 over 4y, 32% of budgetPUBLIC RADIO INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPOINTE COUPEE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $34,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetAntenna — $32,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetSouthern Forest Hertiage Museum — $31,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetLOUISIANA LIBRARY AND BOOK FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 6y, 3.1% 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 budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH LOUISIANA WETLANDS — $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLA STATE PENITENTIARY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetONE BOOK ONE NEW ORLEANS — $25,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetUNITED HOUMA NATION INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% 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 budgetWEST BATON ROUGE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC — $22,500 over 3y, 16% of budgetLEONA TATE FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE INC — $22,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetNORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL — $22,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetRegional Military Museum Foundation — $21,931 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY — $20,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetZIGLER MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetRed River Film Society Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetLAFAYETTE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $18,300 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetACADIAN HERITAGE & CULTURE FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE WHITNEY INSTITUTE — $16,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNOUS FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 12% 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 budgetTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival — $15,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetEMY LOU BIEDENHARN FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOLD STATE CAPITOL FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetNORTHEAST LA CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FRANCAISE DE LA NOUVELLE-0RLEANS — $15,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLOUISIANA LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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 budgetEFFORTS OF GRACE INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $11,300 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.

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

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 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities 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
    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

    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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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