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Arts Council of Central Louisiana

Arts Council of Central Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,530 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($32,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$513k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$37k
Net assets
$969k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Arts Council of Central Louisiana does

Mission

Promotion of the arts within the Central Louisiana community parishes

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Promoted arts education and awareness and supported an enviroment in which the arts can thrive in eight central Louisiana parishes.

    $457,099 spent$499,604 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $457,099.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($347k) Expenses 100 ($262k) Net assets 100 ($818k)2022 Revenue 125 ($436k) Expenses 139 ($365k) Net assets 109 ($888k)2023 Revenue 140 ($487k) Expenses 164 ($431k) Net assets 115 ($944k)2024 Revenue 144 ($500k) Expenses 174 ($457k) Net assets 121 ($986k)2025 Revenue 148 ($513k) Expenses 202 ($530k) Net assets 118 ($969k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (148)Expenses (202)Net assets (118)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $965k to $1.1M (+14%).

$965k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.1M
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 44% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% · 2024 37% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Arts Council of Central Louisiana’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$85k
’21
$70k
’22
$56k
’23
$43k
’24
−$17k
’25
6.4
months of
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.

Chief executive

Matthew Henry

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1212141212
Joined·+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·0120
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $17.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
South Arts Incunclassified
$33k
funders
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Arts Council of Central Louisiana’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

Arts Council of Central Louisiana leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

90% 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 Arts Council of Central Louisiana.

90%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

Arts Council of Central Louisiana draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states in all.

MN
MO
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’22
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Arts Council of Central Louisiana is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding Arts Council of Central Louisiana receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.

Federal$39k
grants $39kcontracts $0
19
21
23
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$39k

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 Arts Council of Central Louisiana

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Arts Council of Central Louisiana?
Arts Council of Central Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,530 to it, the largest being South Arts Inc ($32,950). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Arts Council of Central Louisiana have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $36,530 in grants to Arts Council of Central Louisiana, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Arts Council of Central Louisiana?
South Arts Inc is the largest funder on record, with $32,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Arts Council of Central Louisiana 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.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing