Louisiana · Nonprofit
Maritime Museum Louisiana
Maritime Museum Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,394 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ($35,540). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $597k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Maritime Museum Louisiana does
Mission
The organizations mission is to preserve the marine, naval, and maritime history of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin, including its cultural heritage. We do so by collecting , preserving, analyzing, interpreting, and exhibiting these cultural resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Museum and Exhibits: To provide and maintain a maritime facility that serves children, families, and visitors as a repository to preserve the marine, naval and maritime history and cultural heritage of the lake pontchartrain basin, lower Mississippi River, and the gulf coast by collecting, exhibiting and intepreting records,documents, manuscripts, maps, photographs and other significant material that will illustrate and explain this history and the various industries associated with it.
$262,027 spent$18,549 earned by the program51% of program spendingWooden Boat Festival: This event is held each year to pay tribute to the hand crafted wooden boats of the Gulf Coast Region. Hundreds of boats line the banks of the Tchefuncte River while thousands of wooden boat enthusiasts celebrate the wonders of wood and water.
$150,690 spent$271,721 earned by the program30% of program spendingMaritime Research and Educational Programs: In association with Southeastern Louisiana University, Tulane University, The St. Tammany Parish School System, and others with an interest in history, maritime related sciences and education, the museum actively pursues the research mission that initially inspired the museums founders. This includes historical research, the collection of maritime related oral histories, the development of small underwater robots (to investigate local waters)to inspire local students to pursue this fascinating scientific field. This is a collaborative program for college students related to museum management and exhibit construction. The organization also participates in outreach programs to make the extremely interesting, but little known, history of the area more readily accesible to all.
$54,091 spent11% of program spendingRemainder Program Services - 2
$43,211 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $510,019.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $1.5M (−13%).
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: 2019 1% · 2020 39% · 2021 57% · 2022 20% · 2023 15% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Maritime Museum Louisiana’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Jim MacPherson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $750 → $23k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Maritime Museum Louisiana’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
Maritime Museum Louisiana leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Maritime Museum Louisiana.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 83% · 2022 96% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
80% of Maritime Museum Louisiana's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.
Against its field
Maritime Museum Louisiana's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Maritime Museum Louisiana
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Maritime Museum Louisiana: 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 Maritime Museum Louisiana?
- Maritime Museum Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $55,394 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ($35,540). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Maritime Museum Louisiana have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $55,394 in grants to Maritime Museum Louisiana, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Maritime Museum Louisiana?
- LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $35,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Maritime Museum Louisiana 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 5 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