Louisiana · Nonprofit
LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE
LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,640 to it, the largest being THE MARY FREEMAN WISDOM FOUNDATION ($153,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $613k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre does
Mission
To provide a wide range of quality theatrical productions and programming to entertain, enrich and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of the greater new orleans community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provide community theatre to a broad community audience.
$1,174,982 spent$674,570 earned by the program94% of program spendingTo re-affirm our commitment to education, we will commit to having young people onstage, backstage and fully integrated into the artistic process. We will grow our student matinee program to bring in more students without access to theatre.
$70,019 spent$14,550 earned by the program6% of program spendingLe petit theatre provides theatrical space to external organizations for rent at a discounted rate for live performance events. This program allows other community organizations access to space to present thier own performance art work and contribute to the enhancement of the economic development of the greater new orleans community.
$45,244 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,245,001.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $4.7M to $5.0M (+7%).
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 5% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 9% · 2022 36% · 2023 11% · 2024 9% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Don-Scott Cooper
Executive director/board m
Board chair
Sandra Shilstone
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $22k → $98k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE raised.
From the IRS filings of LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE’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
LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
31% 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 LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 98% · 2019 83% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 40% · 2023 42% — 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
36% of LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
69% of LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $144k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE
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
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE: 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 LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE?
- LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE (Louisiana) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $612,640 to it, the largest being THE MARY FREEMAN WISDOM FOUNDATION ($153,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $612,640 in grants to LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE?
- THE MARY FREEMAN WISDOM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LE PETIT THEATRE DU VIEUX CARRE 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing