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New Orleans Theatre Association Inc

Provide grants and other services to support cultural, educational, and arts-based organizations, and to promote and develop skills and abilities in all fields related to the performing arts including music, dance, theatre, creative writing, and stagecraft.

$506k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% 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$2.6MEducation$44kCommunity Improvement$30kRecreation & Sports$22kReligion$18kHuman Services$9kHealth$5k
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 29 grants below total $473,523 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $506,023 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,500 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 $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $330k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$923k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CC Chamber Music Festival$50,000
New Orleans Opera Association$50,000
Melange$25,000
UNO School of Music$25,000
KidsmaART Arts in Classroom$20,500
New Voices New Orleans$20,000
Lyrica Baroque$20,000
Goat in the Road$20,000
Fashion Institute of NOLA$20,000
NOBA$15,000
Intramural Theatre$15,000
La Museum Foundation$15,000
Tennessee Williams Festival$15,000
Moscow Nights$15,000
Junebug$15,000
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 (FY17–23, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UPTURN ARTS: $12k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $8k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $8k → 23%UPTURN ARTS: $8k → 23%Families Helping Families: $9k → 23%Families Helping Families: $7k → 23%FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES: $5k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 38 repeat orgs$371k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
25

Total granted

$2.4M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+3%

Still filing today

71%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

  • MC
    Manhattan Chamber Players Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +4% · 47% of their budget
  • KS
    KID SMART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +176%
  • UO
    University of New Orleans Foundation
    2× · 2019–2025 · $125k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • NM
    NO MUSICIAN'S ASST FOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SA
    ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $17k

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
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.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Musical Arts Society of New Orleans

Masno's vision is to be a primary source in establishing new orleans as a vital and vibrant center for the musical arts recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally. masno's mission is 1) to create opportunities to hear,…

Arts & Culture
4
New Orleans Ballet Inc Dba New Orleans Ballet Theatre

The mission of new orleans ballet theatre (nobt) is to be the premier resident ballet company of the gulf south internationally renowned for world-class performances, innovative choreography, and outstanding professional training,…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Bayou Playhouse Inc

Schedule o

Arts & Culture
7
Us Biennial Inc

Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial. Every three years, we bring new art to an old city by inviting artists from all over the world to create projects in a wide variety of venues spread throughout New Orleans.…

Arts & Culture
8
Court 13 Arts

Court 13 Arts is a New Orleans-based 501(c)3 nonprofit. Our mission is to grow and sustain New Orleans cinema culture by advancing visual literacy, fostering creative education, and inspiring community-driven collaboration.

Arts & Culture
9
Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra ("GNOYO") provides young musicians the opportunity to participate in a high-quality, full orchestra program. Participants significantly improve individual performance and ensemble skills, while…

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
Keep Nola Music Alive

Keep New Orleans Music Alive preserves the city's unique legacy by providing community services and financial aid to native musicians and culture bearers.

Arts & Culture
12
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Aqua Mob. 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 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%15%<5yr15%6%5–10yr21%25%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr9%17%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%9%<5yr15%9%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr18%19%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr12%17%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/70
the rest of the field
18%
558/3,056

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

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/52
Grantees still filing
28/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Manhattan Chamber Players Inc — $200,000 · Arts & CultureManhattan Chamber Players IncNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION — $157,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATIONKID SMART — $150,500 · Arts & CultureKID SMARTTHE NOLA PROJECT INC — $115,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NOLA PROJECT INCNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $110,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATIONMELANGE DANCE THEATRE — $105,000 · Arts & CultureMELANGE DANCE THEATRETHE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANSGOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS — $95,000 · Arts & CultureGOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONSContemporary Arts Center — $93,000 · Arts & CultureContemporary Arts CenterLYRICA BAROQUE — $72,000 · Arts & CultureNew Orleans Ballet Association — $60,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $55,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $322,103 · Arts & Culture+20 moreTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival — $107,500 · OtherTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Li…BROADWAY THEATRE CONNECTION — $80,000 · OtherBROADWAY THEATRE CONNECTIONCRESCENT CITY STAGE CO — $70,000 · OtherCRESCENT CITY STAGE COSOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE — $65,000 · OtherSOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATREMOSCOW NIGHTS INC — $59,325 · OtherMOSCOW NIGHTS INCManhattan Chamber Players — $48,500 · OtherManhattan Chamber PlayersTIPITINAS FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · OtherTIPITINAS FOUNDATION INCLE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE — $45,000 · OtherLE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARREINTRAMURAL THEATER INC — $43,895 · OtherINTRAMURAL THEATER INC+17 more — $231,000 · Other+17 moreUniversity of New Orleans Foundation — $125,000 · EducationUniversit…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $30,000 · EducationXAVIER UN…Young Audiences Charter Association — $16,020 · EducationYoung Aud…ADVOCATES FOR ART-BASED EDUCATION CORP — $15,000 · EducationADVOCATES…RENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION — $13,460 · EducationRENEW - R…ADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 · EducationFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 · EducationUPTURN ARTS — $34,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INC — $20,500 · Human ServicesDISTRICT 2 COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT CORPORATION — $30,000 · Community ImprovementTransform Network Inc — $10,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $5,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$1,635,103Other$795,220Education$219,480Human Services$54,500Community Improvement$30,000Religion$10,000Health$5,000

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 budgetManhattan Chamber Players Inc — $200,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetNEW ORLEANS OPERA ASSOCIATION — $157,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetKID SMART — $150,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NOLA PROJECT INC — $115,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetNEW ORLEANS CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS FOUNDATION — $110,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival — $107,500 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetMELANGE DANCE THEATRE — $105,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATRE COMPANY OF NEW ORLEANS — $100,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS — $95,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetContemporary Arts Center — $93,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLYRICA BAROQUE — $72,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetCRESCENT CITY STAGE CO — $70,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetSOUTHERN REPERTORY THEATRE — $65,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetNew Orleans Ballet Association — $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS JAZZ CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetLE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE — $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetUPTURN ARTS — $34,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Beauregard-Keyes House Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetNEW VOICES NEW ORLEANS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA INC — $20,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDANCING GROUNDS — $20,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew Orleans Trad Jazz Camp Inc — $16,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSecond Line Arts Collective — $16,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetYoung Audiences Charter Association — $16,020 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMAN'S EXCHANGE DBA HERMANN-GRIMA GALLIER HISTORIC HOUSE — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADVOCATES FOR ART-BASED EDUCATION CORP — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANDRE CAILLOUX CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS — $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJUNEBUG PRODUCTIONS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetRENEW - REINVENTING EDUCATION — $13,460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ARTS & CULTURAL HOST COMMITTEE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF A STUDIO IN THE WOODS — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE CABILDO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR A BETTER NEW ORLEANS — $9,740 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMarigny Opera House Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAKE MUSIC NOLA — $6,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAlternate RootsInc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Orleans Friends of Music — $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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…Keller Family Foundat…Arts Council of New O…Goldring Family Found…New Orleans Community…Ella West Freeman Fou…The Alex Berger Found…Baptist Community Min…The Helis FoundationThe Kabacoff Family F…The Almar Foundationd…Foundation for Louisi…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA70.7× affinity36 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 · Arts Council of New Orleans · Goldring Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Ella West Freeman Foundation · The Alex Berger Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Helis Foundation · The Kabacoff Family Foundation · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · 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 organization New Orleans Theatre Association 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%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to New Orleans Theatre Association Inc?

    Find your warmest path to New Orleans Theatre Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 70 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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