Louisiana · Nonprofit
GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC
GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,317 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($19,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC's revenue fell 67% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared funderslocal
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio match
- The Council for Canadian American Relations Incportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $17k → $17k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF 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
GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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
67% 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 GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 52% · 2019 87% · 2021 90% · 2022 100% · 2023 48% — 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
14% of GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF 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
72% of GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Pro Bono Publico Foundationshared funderslocalLA · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · funds 87 organizations near you
- Al Held Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Canadian American Relations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Leon Smith Polk Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Williamson Foundation for Musicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Berkowitz Contemporary Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fifty Over Fifty Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert D Bielecki Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teiger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Funding Arts Broward Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Artist Communities Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alex Katz Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF 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.
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC: 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 GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC?
- GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,317 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($19,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $89,317 in grants to GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS INC?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $19,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGE RODRIGUE FOUNDATION OF 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing