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LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION

LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SUGAR CANE LEAGUE OF THE USA ($27,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$500k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$665k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Louisiana Sugar Cane Festival & Fair Association does

Mission

Hosting the louisiana sugar cane festival each september in new iberia, la and actively promoting the sugarcane industry statewide and nationwide.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Queen/king activities- to select a king and queen to reign over the festivities and represent the sugar industry on behalf of the association. The association also hosts visting royalty to the festival. Activities include receptions, parades, and balls.

    $73,123 spent$37,490 earned by the program
    20% of program spending
  2. Fais do do and parades- to sponsor music with bands and parades featuring royalty, visting royalty and local schools, bands and dance schools to celebrate and promote local sugarcane industry at the beginning of harvest season as a community event. Activities include farmer's parade, children's parade, and queen's parade. The fais do do events are held for 2 consecutive nights in downtown new iberia.

    $106,121 spent$75,806 earned by the program
    29% of program spending
  3. Fair grounds- a fair is held as part of the celebration with carnival rides for the enjoyment of the community. The association receives a share of the fairgrounds income.

    $79,720 spent$104,551 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  4. General operations of the organization - all related to the primary 3 exempt purposes

    $111,259 spent$26,212 earned by the program
    30% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $370,223.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($285k) Expenses 100 ($188k) Net assets 100 ($228k)2018 Revenue 98 ($280k) Expenses 125 ($234k) Net assets 120 ($274k)2019 Revenue 107 ($304k) Expenses 124 ($233k) Net assets 151 ($345k)2020 Revenue 10 ($29k) Expenses 10 ($18k) Net assets 156 ($356k)2021 Revenue 5 ($13k) Expenses 12 ($22k) Net assets 152 ($347k)2022 Revenue 140 ($398k) Expenses 146 ($273k) Net assets 207 ($472k)2023 Revenue 145 ($412k) Expenses 186 ($348k) Net assets 234 ($535k)2024 Revenue 175 ($500k) Expenses 197 ($370k) Net assets 291 ($665k)
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Revenue (175)Expenses (197)Net assets (291)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $536k to $665k (+24%).

$228k
$276k
$346k
$356k
$422k
$472k
$536k
$665k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 30% · 2021 86% · 2022 4% · 2023 4% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$97k
’17
$46k
’18
$71k
’19
$10k
’20
−$9k
’21
$125k
’22
$63k
’23
$129k
’24
21
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.

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Listed44444444
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+1+0
No longer listed·1000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $5k.

Funder
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total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.

LA

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

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’18
’19
’20
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

LA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION?
LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $27,950 to it, the largest being AMERICAN SUGAR CANE LEAGUE OF THE USA ($27,950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $27,950 in grants to LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION?
AMERICAN SUGAR CANE LEAGUE OF THE USA is the largest funder on record, with $27,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOUISIANA SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL & FAIR ASSOCIATION 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 1 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