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JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY

JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,527 to it, the largest being LOIS AND LLOYD HAWKINS JR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3.7M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$464k
Net assets
$662k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Jefferson Performing Arts Society does

Mission

The organizations primary exempt purpose is for the general public to gain further appreciation of the arts in the community & educational purposes through attendance at performances & training of the performers in various artistic endeavors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Program concerts & performances held for general public to further their appreciation of the arts in the community. Events are held as either one or several performances & include grand opera, broadway musicals, symphonic and choral concerts, ballet and modern dance and distinguished guest artists of all genres from around the world and various musical theatre camps for kids during the fall, spring, and summer, at risk and non at-risk youth outreach programs during the school year.

    $2,795,552 spent$3,026,380 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,795,552.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.8M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 91 ($2.5M) Expenses 117 ($2.9M) Net assets 70 ($781k)2019 Revenue 98 ($2.7M) Expenses 115 ($2.8M) Net assets 62 ($696k)2020 Revenue 80 ($2.2M) Expenses 92 ($2.2M) Net assets 58 ($653k)2021 Revenue 51 ($1.4M) Expenses 59 ($1.4M) Net assets 61 ($679k)2022 Revenue 95 ($2.6M) Expenses 88 ($2.1M) Net assets 108 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 107 ($3.0M) Expenses 129 ($3.1M) Net assets 89 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 108 ($3.0M) Expenses 136 ($3.3M) Net assets 46 ($514k)2025 Revenue 135 ($3.7M) Expenses 148 ($3.6M) Net assets 59 ($662k)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (148)Net assets (59)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 $971k to $1.6M (+61%).

$1.3M
$1.1M
$943k
$1.0M
$971k
$1.6M
$1.9M
$1.4M
$1.5M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 25% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 33% · 2021 48% · 2022 59% · 2023 25% · 2024 20% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

18% of JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$326k
’17
−$348k
’18
−$94k
’19
−$37k
’20
−$26k
’21
$483k
’22
−$190k
’23
−$330k
’24
$121k
’25
0.5
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

Robert Deviney

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed181715131318171516
Joined·+1+0+5+2+7+3+1+5
No longer listed·22722434
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $79k → $56k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY’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

JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

32%
largest funder
64%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 58% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 95% · 2023 45% — 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

64% of JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

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LA
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FL

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

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Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY's revenue grew 35% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 20%Fundraising 3%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY?
JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $463,527 to it, the largest being LOIS AND LLOYD HAWKINS JR FOUNDATION ($150,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $463,527 in grants to JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY?
LOIS AND LLOYD HAWKINS JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY 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 16 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