Louisiana · Nonprofit
ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,433 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($275,658). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $625k
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Acadiana Center for the Arts Inc does
Mission
Fostering art and culture in acadiana - the aca provides education and outreach activities to all ages, grant funds and assistance to nonprofits, and visual art exhibits and performances in a state-of-the-art facility.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Visual art exhibits and performances- the visual arts program implemented a robust exhibition schedule in approximately 6,000 square feet of museum- quality gallery space. In 2024-2025, aca opened 18 exhibitions featuring 211 exhibiting artists and welcomed 14,049 visitors, including members, students, tourists, and public program attendees. Exhibitions addressed regional history, ecology, and place, and included a large thematic exhibition inviting louisiana artists to interpret "our point in space." across all galleries, aca presented a wide range of media and perspectives, fostering dialogue between established and emerging artists and between traditional and contemporary practices.
$435,396 spent$214,838 earned by the program19% of program spendingEducation and outreach - aca's arts in education (aie) program is a primary expression of the teach pathway within let culture lead and represents one of the largest youth-serving arts efforts in louisiana. In 2024-2025, aie served 41,650 students at 97 schools, delivered 8,950 classroom sessions, provided 204 field-trip performances and arts-based student experiences, employed 80 teaching artists, and offered 131 educator trainings. Approximately 9,000 students received weekly arts-integrated classes for 16 weeks through the pace (primary academic creative experiences) program. The year also marked a full district partnership with vermilion parish, deeper work in lafayette parish through the "everybody grows" pilot at three ace schools, and new agreements to expand aie into every public school in iberia and st. Martin parishes in 2025-2026. Visionaries donor support, organized with the community foundation of acadiana, continued to provide critical matching funds toward a long-term goal of serving 203 schools and more than 80,000 students by 2030.
$900,805 spentof which $15,252 as grants$651,420 earned by the program40% of program spendingCommunity development - the community engagement program focused on strengthening acadiana's creative ecosystem and supporting artists, culture-bearers, and communities. In 2024-2025, aca delivered 34 public programs and events (workshops, artist roundups, artist talks, state of the arts, and information sessions) with 917 total attendees and engaged 1,397 artists and creatives, including participants in grant programs and public art projects. Aca hosted 11 paid workshops and roundtables with 141 attendees and distributed 222,966 in grants and stipends to 60 awardees through programs such as artspark, arts grants for teachers, louisiana project grant, lafayette arts and culture grant, the courtney granger memorial award, and the jean breaux award. Participants reported that the combination of funding, workshops, and mentoring made opportunities more accessible and collaborative. Aca also deepened partnerships with lft fiber, the lafayette public art network, and regional public agencies to align cultural programming with broader community development goals.
$302,735 spentof which $174,548 as grants$91,403 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther accomplishments - the louisiana music museum advanced as a flagship project within acas build pathway, hosting 104 planning meetings and engaging 565 stakeholders, while securing 3.5 million toward its capital goal to create a museum-quality facility in downtown lafayette. The louisiana scoring initiative completed its first full year, serving nine clients, employing 128 musicians, and producing orchestral and media scores, strengthening louisianas music workforce. Aca amplified its reach through marketing and development, growing its email list to 11,663, social media audience to nearly 34,000, and raising 1.1 million in annual funds, with let culture lead commitments reaching 5.84 million. Membership increased by 16% to 692, and operations hosted 60 rentals while completing a 600,000 roof replacement, ensuring the facility remains a durable cultural anchor.
$617,293 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,256,229.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.7M to $4.7M (+73%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 20% · 2018 22% · 2019 27% · 2020 33% · 2021 20% · 2022 8% · 2023 3% · 2024 7% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $42k → $111k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $305k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Performing Arts Society of Acadiana Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 41% · 2023 65% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
56% of ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $276k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $349k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $110k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$110k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $625,433 to it, the largest being Community Foundation of Acadiana ($275,658). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $625,433 in grants to ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC?
- Community Foundation of Acadiana is the largest funder on record, with $275,658 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing