Louisiana · Nonprofit
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Louisiana) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,447,994 to it, the largest being The Helis Foundation ($3,667,367). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.6M
- Funders on record
- 46
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
What Ogden Museum of Southern Art does
Mission
Located in the vibrant Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art holds the larges and most comprehensive collection of southern art and is recognized for its original exhibitions, public events and educational programs which examine the development of visual art alongside southern traditions of music, literature and culinary heritage to provide a comprehensive story of the south. Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003, the museum welcomes almost 85,000 visitors annually, and attracts diverse audiences through its broad range of programming including exhibitions, lectures, film screenings, and concerts which are all part of its mission to broaden the knowledge, understanding, interpretation and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To broaden the understanding of the American Southern art and culture through its permanent collections, changing exhibits, educational programs, and publications.
$1,782,690 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,782,690.
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 2021 to 2022, from $10M to $6.3M (−40%).
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: 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 7% · 2023 2% · 2024 20% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
William Andrews
Executive Director
Board chair
Jessie Haynes
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $125k → $1.1M.
5 of 46 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.1M from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater New Orleans Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Ogden Museum of Southern Art raised.
From the IRS filings of Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 46 funders by total. 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
Ogden Museum of Southern Art leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 78% · 2019 47% · 2020 52% · 2021 60% · 2022 56% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
48% of Ogden Museum of Southern Art's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of Ogden Museum of Southern Art's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $870k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Ogden Museum of Southern Art runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Ogden Museum of Southern Art receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $262k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$149k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$113k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Ogden Museum of Southern Art
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
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Ogden Museum of Southern Art?
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art (Louisiana) receives grants from 46 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,447,994 to it, the largest being The Helis Foundation ($3,667,367). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ogden Museum of Southern Art have?
- IRS filings report 46 organizations giving $7,447,994 in grants to Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ogden Museum of Southern Art?
- The Helis Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,667,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ogden Museum of Southern Art 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 46 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing