Louisiana · Nonprofit
NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC
NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $22k
What New Orleans Poetry Festival Inc does
Mission
The New Orleans Festival, Inc., is dedicated to serving the New Orleans community and the art of poetry by putting on a yearly festival celebrating poetry in all its forms, including sponsoring performances by visiting poets from around the nation and the world, providing venues for local poets to share their art, and a book fair featuring small press publishing, mostly poetry.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Mount yearly poetry festival and bookfair, April 8-13, 2025
$36,528 spentof which $19,315 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $36,528.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sean F Munro
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC’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
NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC.
“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
NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC?
- NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,000 to it, the largest being THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $16,000 in grants to NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC?
- THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW ORLEANS POETRY FESTIVAL INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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