Louisiana · Nonprofit
SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS
SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,263,800 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($1,263,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS's revenue grew 23% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inclocalportfolio match
- The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundationlocal
- Arts Council of New Orleansportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
6% of SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $309k → $276k.
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 SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge Inclocalportfolio matchLA · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge FoundationlocalLA · funds 75 organizations near you
- Arts Council of New Orleansportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shreveport Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Orleans Theatre Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mid-America Arts Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louisiana Endowment for the Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arts Midwest Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gateway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Greater St Louis Arts and Education Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Douglas Manship Sr Theater Complex LLC · exempt
- Lsu- School of Art & Museum of Art · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS: 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.
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 SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS (Louisiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,263,800 to it, the largest being BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ($1,263,800). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,263,800 in grants to SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS?
- BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,263,800 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHAW CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing