Louisiana · Nonprofit
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,819 to it, the largest being FRANCO-AMERICAN BENEVOLENT % C BENJAMIN LANDRY ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Festival International de Louisiane does
Mission
Festival International de Louisiane (FIL) is a community based, non-profit arts organization formed in 1986 to produce an annual visual and performing arts festival celebrating the French cultural heritage of southern Louisiana -- primarily a combination of French, African, Caribbean and Hispanic influences.Festival International de Louisiane's mission is to: 1) enrich the community by celebrating its native cultures, 2) educate the public to the historical achievements and artistic expressions of related global cultures, 3) develop and encourage an appreciation for the arts, and 4) enhance the economic development of the Acadiana region through the presentation of an internationally recognized arts event and the promotion of cultural exchange on a national and global level.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Produced a festival of performing and visual arts featuring performers and artists from the local area and from french-speaking communities throughout the world.
$1,277,710 spentof which $134,745 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,277,710.
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 $1.5M to $2.1M (+39%).
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 6% · 2018 10% · 2019 5% · 2020 15% · 2021 44% · 2022 26% · 2023 7% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
57% of FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Scott Feehan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $36k → $7k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE’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
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
56% 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 FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 75% · 2019 69% · 2020 69% · 2021 44% · 2022 76% · 2023 52% — diversifying over time.
“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
71% of FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
64% of FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $52k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$28k
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 FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fil Land Holdings LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE?
- FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE (Louisiana) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $239,819 to it, the largest being FRANCO-AMERICAN BENEVOLENT % C BENJAMIN LANDRY ($65,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $239,819 in grants to FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE?
- FRANCO-AMERICAN BENEVOLENT % C BENJAMIN LANDRY is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DE LOUISIANE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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