Louisiana · Nonprofit
MESS ARTS
MESS ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $126k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $28k
What Mess Arts does
Mission
Primary exempt purpose: Mess Arts is dedicated to providing accessible, high-quality arts education to children in new orleans, with a focus on youth leadership, safe spaces, and community. Our programs foster creativity, self-expression, and community engagement, ensuring that all children, regardless of financial or physical barriers, have the opportunity to participate in the arts. Out of school time programming: in 2024, Mess Arts served 390 children through engaging arts programs outside of school hours, offering a safe and creative space for kids to learn and grow. Scholarships: Mess Arts provided 24% of participants with scholarships with less community resources, half of those being from our single parent scholarship fund helping ensure that financial barriers do not prevent children from accessing arts education. Youth leadership events and community partnerships: our youth leadership initiatives include a kid-run art sale and a youth art gallery show at a prominent downtown gallery. These events empower young people to take on leadership roles and become true stakeholders in the program. Additionally, Mess Arts has built strong community partnerships with local non…
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Out of school time programming-see statement
$0 spentScholarships-see statement
$0 spentYouth leadership events and community partnerships-see statement
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MESS ARTS’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 MESS ARTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MESS ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MESS ARTS
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MESS ARTS: 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 MESS ARTS?
- MESS ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MESS ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to MESS ARTS.
- Who is the largest funder of MESS ARTS?
- Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MESS ARTS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), 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