Louisiana · Nonprofit
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (Louisiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,087,044 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,199,857). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.5M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities does
Mission
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities is a non-profit organization whose mission is to partner with communities, institutions, and individuals to explore louisiana's past, reflect on our present, and imagine our future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants - the leh supports cultural efforts throughout louisiana by awarding grants to local cultural organizations and institutions. These awards support large and small-scale humanities public programs from university events to museum exhibitions, from documentary films to emergency recovery projects. We work in every parish and work to reach every louisianan in local libraries, cultural centers and historical societies. Our granting programs represent state-based programs in humanities though direct financial support of humanities programs. A list of payments is available upon request.
$312,088 spentof which $312,088 as grants8% of program spendingFamily reading programs -the leh develops, continuously refines, nationally licenses, and directly executes a set of unique, humanities-focused, outcomes-based programs designed to engage underserved children and families. Created in 1991, prime time reading programs are proven to generate long-term improvements in family engagement and student academic achievement. Prime time programs offer partner sites such as libraries, schools, and other community service agencies research-based initiatives that engage children, parents, teachers, education administrators, and the community at-large in high-quality, family-focused learning experiences. Prime time directly operates across the entire state of louisiana and is licensed across the entire united states.
$635,169 spent17% of program spendingPublishing the leh publishes vibrant and relevant original writing, research, art, and photography in a quarterly magazine, large-format books, and through an online digital archive of scholarship on louisiana. 64 parishes (print) is distributed statewide and seeks to reach all residents of our state through the work of our vibrant and growing team of la-based contributors. 64 parishes (online) is available to anyone at any time and includes special features for students, teachers and cultural travelers. 64 parishes (online) also brings together cultural and historical materials from most of louisiana's major archives and special collections. Our books focus on specific topics of high interest like the tricentennial anniversary of the city of new orleans and are actively sought out by residents of our state. In our publishing work, we tell the stories and highlight the artistry and cultural heritage of louisiana through powerful scholarship, dynamic media, scholar-driven digital archives, and original cultural reporting.
$2,777,082 spent$212,649 earned by the program75% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,724,339.
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 2024 to 2025, from $11M to $14M (+20%).
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 39% · 2018 27% · 2019 35% · 2020 44% · 2021 76% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% · 2024 16% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES’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. 1 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.
Board chair
Randy Haynie
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $374k → $753k.
6 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $449k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Southeast Louisiana). These are real filings, and they are not money LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES raised.
From the IRS filings of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 47% · 2019 38% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 43% · 2023 40% — broadly stable.
“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
44% of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
61% of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $735k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.4M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10.4M
- National Endowment for the Arts$25k
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 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Prime Time Family Reading · exempt
- Louisiana Humanities Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: 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 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES?
- LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES (Louisiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,087,044 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($1,199,857). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $5,087,044 in grants to LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,199,857 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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