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MESS ARTS

MESS ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$126k
Revenue FY2024
0
Funders on record
$0
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
0/0 repeat funders

Against its field

MESS ARTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it
03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like MESS ARTS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Upturn Arts84%Art Camp 50484%Kid Smart80%New Orleans Arts & Cultural Host Committee79%North Central Louisiana Arts Council79%Greater New Orleans Science Fair Inc Region 9 of Louisiana79%Strauss Youth Academy for the Arts79%Make Music Nola79%

Nationally

Upturn Arts84%Art Camp 50484%Arts for All Inc82%Art 4orms Foundation82%Artsie Inc82%The Friends of the Arts School Inc82%Multi-Arts Inc81%Summer Festival of the Arts81%
04Profile & governance

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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds MESS ARTS?
MESS ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 0 organizations whose IRS filings report $0 to it. 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MESS ARTS have?
IRS filings report 0 organizations giving $0 in grants to MESS ARTS.
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 0funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing