Louisiana · Nonprofit
BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC
BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being M W MURPHY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $15k
What Backbeat Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Backbeat Foundation's mission is to foster support of the rich New Orleans cultural heritage through the presentation of innovative arts and music programming and community based events and projects. The Foundation provides resources and support to musicians living and working in New Orleans to help ensure that the musical community and legacy of New Orleans remains vibrant.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
18th Annual Backbeat Jazzfest Series. Annual concert series presented over 12 days with over 24 acts performing. The series is a showcase of local talent and jazz music. Over 200 musicians benefitted from performing at the event and more than 4000 attendees were exposed to jazz music in all its manifestations.
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $4k to $67k (+1400%).
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.
100% of BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Donna Santiago
President/Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BACKBEAT FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Against its field
BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BACKBEAT FOUNDATION 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC?
- BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being M W MURPHY FOUNDATION ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BACKBEAT FOUNDATION INC?
- M W MURPHY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BACKBEAT FOUNDATION 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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