Louisiana · Nonprofit
PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC
PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,254,357 to it, the largest being CHARLES & LUCILLE KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,050,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Preservation Hall Foundation Inc does
Mission
Preservation hall foundation protects, preserves, and perpetuates new orleans music through engaging and supporting musicians; providing support and services to elder members of our collective; conserving and sharing jazz music archives and spaces; providing educational experiences for students, families and the general public; and grantmaking to recognize merit and/or alleviate need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education: primary activity of foundation is developing and producing educaton activities and content focused on traditional new orleans jazz. The two main education programs are kids in the hall, a live field trip experience, and pres hall lessons, our free online resource with original lesson plans for k-12 teachers.
$594,048 spent$241,680 earned by the program35% of program spendingCommunity engagement: extends traditional jazz music and culture outside of new orleans. Activities include free performances at schools, libraries and other public spaces as well as lectures and master classes in academic and professional settings. The long-term goal is to contribute to the larger body of knowledge and practice that protects the transmission of local cultural traditions worldwide.
$252,261 spentof which $12,600 as grants15% of program spendingLegacy: program to support elder musicians (60 years and older) that are regular performers and educators at preservation hall. During covid and aftermath of hurricane ida, the legacy program expanded to provide emergency relief grants and other support to nearly 100 individuals, traditional bands, and organizations.
$497,528 spentof which $308,421 as grants29% of program spendingArchives: the foundation maintains and builds a living archive and collection that documents the story of the preservation hall venue, community and lives of its musicians. A large part of the archives program is to create new digital content in the form of video and audio recordings to capture the vibrant present era of the institution.
$358,019 spent21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,701,856.
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 2022 to 2023, from $3.9M to $8.6M (+119%).
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 2% · 2021 45%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Greg Lucas
Executive director
Board chair
Benjamin Jaffe
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $295k → $2.3M.
16 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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
PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 69% · 2019 55% · 2020 32% · 2021 39% · 2022 71% · 2023 87% — 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
36% of PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half 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 PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$10k
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 PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION 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.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC: 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 PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC?
- PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,254,357 to it, the largest being CHARLES & LUCILLE KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($3,050,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $8,254,357 in grants to PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARLES & LUCILLE KING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESERVATION HALL FOUNDATION 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.
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 63 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