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Shreveport Regional Arts Council

Promotion of the arts.

$388k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$75k
Largest
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.1M
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $302,610, the rows itemized in this filing. The $388,270 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,660 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 · $53k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$8,400
Median grant
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States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLACK CULTURAL ARTS COALITION$75,000
SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY$38,800
RED RIVER REVEL$37,600
THE STRAND THEATRE$33,000
SHREVEPORT OPERA$20,700
SHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLET$20,560
SHREVEPORT REGIONAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE$12,180
ROBINSON FILM CENTER$11,990
SANTUARY ARTS SCHOOL$8,400
SCORE$6,340
SHREVEPORT LITTLE THEATRE$5,930
LSUS THEATER$5,750
SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,390
HO MINTI SOCIETY$5,320
HIGHLAND AREA PARTNERSHIP$5,280
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 15 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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 & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $231k · revenue +46%
  • RR
    RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +13%
  • LT
    LITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT
    7× · 2017–2025 · $122k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • EO
    Extensions of Excellence INC
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    The Academy of Children's Theatre Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -77%
  • NL
    NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +1%
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.

03Its 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
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
2
Shreveport Regional Arts Council

Promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
3
Arts Council of Central Louisiana

Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes

Arts & Culture
4
Paris Community Theater

Paris Community Theatre is dedicated to producing high-quality entertainment that engages, inspires, educates, and transforms. Through the arts, we provide cultural enrichment, creative development, and opportunities for self-discovery. We…

Arts & Culture
5
Community Arts Council of Blount County
Arts & Culture
6
Florissant Fine Arts Council

To bring musical and dramatic performanc

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7
Arts Longview

Our mission is to spark a love of the arts, history, and culture in order to celebrate and enhance our creative community. from our hometown charm to our urban spirit, we are the art and soul of longview.

Arts & Culture
8
Theatre of the Performing Arts in Shreveport
Arts & Culture
9
Bayou Playhouse Inc

Schedule o

Arts & Culture
10
Covington Louisiana Actors Playhouse System
Arts & Culture
11
Sioux City Community Theater

Promotion of and presentation of dramatic arts

Arts & Culture
12
Sumter County Fine Arts Council

Cultural enrichment through arts programs

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Strand Theatre of Shreveport Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Inter City Row Modern Dance Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC: $242,918 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INCRED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL: $222,548 · Arts & CultureRED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVALSHREVEPORT OPERA: $175,902 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT OPERALITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT: $121,738 · Arts & CultureLITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORTSHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLET: $118,975 · Arts & CultureSHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLETBOSSIER ARTS COUNCIL: $80,042 · Arts & CultureBOSSIER ARTS COUNCIL+5 more: $92,230 · Arts & Culture+5 moreBLACK CULTURAL ARTS COALITION: $635,525 · OtherBLACK CULTURAL ARTS COALITIONTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION: $231,056 · OtherTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATIONLSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT: $37,114 · Other+12 more: $114,500 · Other+12 moreRENZI EDUCATION & ART CENTER INC: $34,133 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$1,054,353Other$1,018,195Youth Development$34,133

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC: $242,918 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetTHE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION: $231,056 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetRED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL: $222,548 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSHREVEPORT OPERA: $175,902 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT: $121,738 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetSHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLET: $118,975 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetBOSSIER ARTS COUNCIL: $80,042 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetRENZI EDUCATION & ART CENTER INC: $34,133 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetSANCTUARY ARTS SCHOOL: $28,700 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL: $28,563 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetHIGHLAND AREA PARTNERSHIP INC: $26,280 over 3y, 10% of budgetFILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRed River Film Society Inc: $11,990 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Academy of Children's Theatre Inc: $9,486 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL: $8,053 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINTER CITY ROW MODERN DANCE COMPANY: $6,800 over 1y, 8.6% 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.

  • Who funds SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE STRAND THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds SHREVEPORT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF SHREVEPORT ↗
  • Who funds SHREVEPORT METROPOLITAN BALLET ↗
  • Who funds BOSSIER ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RENZI EDUCATION & ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SANCTUARY ARTS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CENTRAL LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLAND AREA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FILM PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Extensions of Excellence INC ↗
  • Who funds Red River Film Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds CULTURAL CROSSROADS OF MINDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds The Academy of Children's Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST LOUISIANA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds INTER CITY ROW MODERN DANCE COMPANY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Carolyn W & Charles T…Kilpatrick Rose-Neath…Willis-Knighton Medic…J B Atkins FoundationThe Powers Foundation…Grayson Foundation IncFirst Family Foundati…Noel Foundation IncThe Alta and John Fra…American Electric Pow…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Kilpatrick Rose-Neath Foundation Inc · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · J B Atkins Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Grayson Foundation Inc · First Family Foundation of Nw Louisiana Inc · Noel Foundation Inc · The Alta and John Franks Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Shreveport Regional Arts Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shreveport Regional Arts Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 27 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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