Louisiana · Nonprofit
PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC
PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 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 FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $89k
What Patrons of the Vatican Museums of the South Inc does
Mission
To help support artistic conservation projects, donate equipment for restoration laboratories, and assist in the restructuring of the museums. The patrons of the arts in the vatican museums is a non-profit interfaith group that is committed to the restoration, preservation, and increase in artistic patrimony of the collections and buildings of the vatican museums, while furthering the understanding and knowledge of its members of these works of art through lectures, meetings and visits to the vatican
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Payment to affiliates
$50,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants65% of program spendingVarious charitable contributions
$27,500 spentof which $27,500 as grants35% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $77,500.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $57k to $110k (+94%).
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.
58% of PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH 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.
Where its funders are
100% of PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC'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. $10k 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
PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC's revenue fell 74% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,869 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC
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.
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC?
- PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $10,000 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($10,000). 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 PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $10,000 in grants to PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC.
- Who is the largest funder of PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH INC?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION 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 PATRONS OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS OF THE SOUTH 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 2021–2025), 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