Louisiana · Nonprofit
RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL
RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,444 to it, the largest being SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($222,548). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $227k
What Red River Revel Arts Festival does
Mission
The mission of the festival is to provide the general populace a celebration of the finest visual and performing arts experiences. The festival provides educational opportunities, visual and performing arts displays, performances, seminars and workshops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Red River Revel Arts Festivaleach year since 1976, this nine-day arts festival has united people throughout the area to enjoy a celebration of visual and performing arts. The outdoor festival attracts more than 75,000 people. More than a thousand volunteers donate their time and efforts to help manage the festival's activities. The Red River Revel Arts Festival celebrates the arts with more than 75 visual artists from across the country, two performance stages that feature live music and a large area dedicated specifically to providing arts education for children.
$1,602,795 spent$1,056,607 earned by the program96% of program spendingShreveport farmers' marketduring the summer and fall seasons, a farmers' market is held at the downtown festival plaza to unite local farmers, gardeners, and others within the community to enjoy locally grown fruits, vegetables, and plants; homemade breads and jams; and a variety of other locally produced foods. Live music is featured during the event.
$74,395 spent$43,484 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,677,190.
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 2020 to 2021, from $432k to $880k (+104%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 7% · 2020 17% · 2021 27% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 8% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 8 funders, grant income rose $69k → $121k.
1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL’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
RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
58% 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 RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 56% · 2021 59% · 2022 37% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
73% of RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $196k 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
RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL?
- RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,444 to it, the largest being SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ($222,548). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $758,444 in grants to RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL?
- SHREVEPORT REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $222,548 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED RIVER REVEL ARTS FESTIVAL 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 13 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