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Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,281 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($111,258). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $360k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $539k
- Net assets
- $155k
What Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival does
Mission
The Festival's mission is threefold; to serve the community through educational, theatrical, literary, and musical programs to nurture, support and showcase regional, national, and international writers, actors, musicians and other artists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival - Literary panel discussions which provide a congenial forum on an array of diverse topics, theatrical performances, master classes with notable experts in writing or the arts, and a variety of adjunct components to attract and enrich audience participants. These events took place in-person with additional events held virtually through filmed events, live streams, and pre-recorded panel discussions.
$258,674 spent$51,226 earned by the program86% of program spendingSaints and Sinners Literary Festival - Features panel discussions and master classes around literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors, and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of the fans of LGBT literature. A full weekend of in-person and virtual events included panels, interviews, and workshops.
$26,971 spent$15,638 earned by the program9% of program spendingContests - Poetry, Fiction, and One Act Play contests are held annually for individuals who have not yet been published.
$14,378 spent$19,702 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $300,023.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $191k to $229k (+20%).
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 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 11% · 2021 9% · 2022 20% · 2023 13% · 2024 21% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $48k → $82k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary 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
Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 38% · 2019 85% · 2020 42% · 2021 33% · 2022 18% · 2023 37% — 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
50% of Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
59% of Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary 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. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Government funding Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $108k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$108k
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 Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary 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
80% 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 Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival?
- Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $539,281 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($111,258). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $539,281 in grants to Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary Festival?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111,258 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Tennessee WilliamsNew Orleans Literary 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 19 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