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RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY

RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,998 to it, the largest being AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION ($223,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$449k
Revenue FY2025
10
Funders on record
$549k
Grants received
$681k
Net assets
4/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY has grown faster than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($196k) Expenses 100 ($177k) Net assets 100 ($451k)2018 Revenue 51 ($100k) Expenses 69 ($123k) Net assets 95 ($429k)2019 Revenue 92 ($180k) Expenses 83 ($146k) Net assets 103 ($463k)2020 Revenue 55 ($109k) Expenses 64 ($113k) Net assets 102 ($458k)2021 Revenue 208 ($407k) Expenses 118 ($209k) Net assets 145 ($656k)2022 Revenue 125 ($245k) Expenses 126 ($224k) Net assets 150 ($678k)2023 Revenue 152 ($299k) Expenses 124 ($219k) Net assets 168 ($758k)2024 Revenue 232 ($454k) Expenses 227 ($402k) Net assets 179 ($810k)2025 Revenue 229 ($449k) Expenses 327 ($578k) Net assets 151 ($681k)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (327)Net assets (151)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 51% · 2021 19% · 2022 40% · 2023 65% · 2024 72% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$19k
17
$22k
18
$34k
19
$5k
20
$198k
21
$22k
22
$80k
23
$52k
24
$129k
25
3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $1k → $36k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% 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 RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY’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

RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

44% 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 RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY.

41%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 41% · 2021 53% · 2022 73% · 2023 28%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

20% of RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 5 states in all.

IL
PA
NE
LA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
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22
23
Louisiana out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $215k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record.

Federal$26k
grants $0contracts $26k
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$26k

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 RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Louisiana

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 19%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY?
RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $548,998 to it, the largest being AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION ($223,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $548,998 in grants to RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY?
AIR PRODUCTS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $223,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RIVER ROAD AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM AND GALLERY 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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing