New Orleans Theatre Association Inc
New Orleans, LA · EIN 72-1016132. Reported 98 grants totalling $1,658,043 to 45 organizations across tax years 2020-2025, 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 New Orleans Theatre Association Inc, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A6A0) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 45 distinct organizations, with 10% 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 much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 5 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $50,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan Chamber Players Inc | New Orleans, LA | $165,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| New Orleans Opera Association | New Orleans, LA | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Kid Smart | New Orleans, LA | $100,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans | New Orleans, LA | $90,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Goat in the Road Productions | New Orleans, LA | $80,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Melange Dance Theatre | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| New Orleans Ballet Association | New Orleans, LA | $75,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Crescent City Stage Co | New Orleans, LA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Tennessee Williams-New Orleans Literary Festival Inc | New Orleans, LA | $67,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lyrica Baroque | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Nola Project Inc | New Orleans, LA | $60,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | New York, NY | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| No Chamber Players | New Orleans, LA | $48,500 | 4 | 3 | 2025 |
| Moscow Nights Inc | Metairie, LA | $44,325 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Intramural Theater Inc | New Orleans, LA | $43,895 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| District 2 Community Enhancement Corporation | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Friends of Beauregard Keyes House Inc | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Le Petit Theatre Du Vieux Carre | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Orleans Jazz Centennial Celebra Tion Inc | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Voices New Orleans Inc | New Orleans, LA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Contemporary Arts Center | New Orleans, LA | $26,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of New Orleans Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Amici | New Orleans, LA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Second Line Arts Collective | Kenner, LA | $16,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| St Augustine High School | New Orleans, LA | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Academy of Our Lady | Marrero, LA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Families Helping Families of Southeast Louisiana Inc | New Orleans, LA | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Advocates for Academic Excellence in Education Inc | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Andre Cailloux Center for Performing Arts & Cultural Justice | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junebug Productions | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Louisiana Museum Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Renew-Reinventing Education | New Orleans, LA | $13,460 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival | New Orleans, LA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Advocates for Arts Based Educationinc | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Crescent City Theatre Awards | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Endangered Species Theatre Pj | Frederick, MD | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Firstline Schools Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Performance Network Inc | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Transform Network Inc | Charlotte, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Congregation Gates of Prayer | Metairie, LA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Opera Creoles | New Orleans, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Aqua Mob | New Orleans, LA | $6,863 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Make Music Nola | New Orleans, LA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Orleans Traditional Jazz | New Orleans, LA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
26 of 45 (58%) received money in more than one year over the 6 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- New Orleans Opera Association
Grant for production entitled: Blue - Cc Chamber Music Festival
Grant for Spring Concerts - Crescent City Stage
Grant: Cake, Doll's H, Xmas Carol - Manhattan Chamber Players
Fund local art & theatre production - Fractured Atlas Fiscal Agent
Grants: Homes Kitchen & Fireweeds - New Orleans Museum Artnola
Outdoor programming (1st of 3 Pmts)
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 34 of 45 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 6 | $97,500 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 4 | $61,500 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $192,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 19 | $376,500 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 27 | $457,020 | $15,000 |
| 2025 | 29 | $473,523 | $15,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $15,000 -- 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 New Orleans Theatre Association Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 18 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 11 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 5034 Bancroft Drive, New Orleans, LA, 70112.
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