Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-0778258. Reported 43 grants totalling $519,859 to 43 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Arts Council of New Orleans, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A260) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,536. Half of what it reported fell between $7,655 and $15,617; the smallest was $5,250 and the largest $23,909. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $23,909 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra | New Orleans, LA | $20,403 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ellis Marsalis Center for Music Inc | New Orleans, LA | $18,943 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Film and Video Society Inc | New Orleans, LA | $18,227 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kid Smart | New Orleans, LA | $17,976 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junebug Productions | New Orleans, LA | $17,295 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dancing Grounds | New Orleans, LA | $16,761 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Artivism Dance Theatre | New Orleans, LA | $16,737 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans African American Museum of Art Culture and History | New Orleans, LA | $16,531 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of a Studio in the Woods | New Orleans, LA | $15,973 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival Inc | New Orleans, LA | $15,617 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Audiences of Louisiana Inc | New Orleans, LA | $15,268 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make Music Nola | New Orleans, LA | $15,077 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Antenna | New Orleans, LA | $14,976 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ella Project | New Orleans, LA | $14,473 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Krewe of Red Beans | New Orleans, LA | $14,193 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Efforts of Grace Inc | New Orleans, LA | $14,180 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Works of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $14,172 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $14,172 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Opera Association | New Orleans, LA | $14,172 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| US Biennial Inc | New Orleans, LA | $12,030 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Goat in the Road Productions | New Orleans, LA | $11,536 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Creole Wild West Inc | New Orleans, LA | $11,486 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lyrica Baroque | New Orleans, LA | $11,193 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Wwoz Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Troy Andrews Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Young Aspirations-Young Artists Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Book One New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $9,880 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Musicians for Music | New Orleans, LA | $9,399 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rivers Institute | New Orleans, LA | $8,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mondo Bizarro Productions | New Orleans, LA | $8,487 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Lafitte Corridor Inc | New Orleans, LA | $7,981 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Nola Project Inc | New Orleans, LA | $7,655 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cubanola Collective | New Orleans, LA | $7,086 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mamacita Social Aid and Pleasure Club | New Orleans, LA | $6,900 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marigny Opera House Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $6,780 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Ballet Inc | New Orleans, LA | $6,780 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Original Big Seven Social Aid and Pleasure Club | New Orleans, LA | $6,297 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Video Access Center Inc | New Orleans, LA | $5,780 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Ogden Museum of Southern Art Inc | New Orleans, LA | $5,547 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Versipel New Music | New Orleans, LA | $5,337 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Musical Arts Society of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whole Village Art Therapy Inc | New Orleans, LA | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 43 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,536 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Arts Council of New Orleans's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 58379, New Orleans, LA, 70158.
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