New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc is a New Orleans, Louisiana-based public charity that supports music, culture, and heritage through festivals and cultural, educational, civic, and economic activities. Its grantmaking includes support for Louisiana schools, artists, and arts-based nonprofit organizations.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc at a glance
In short: New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc gave $1.3M across 37 grants in 2025 (avg $35K), mostly in Louisiana. 70% of 2025 grantees were new. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.
- Annual giving (2025)
- $1,294,462
- +29.0% vs 2024
- Grants made (2025)
- 37
- +131.3% vs 2024
- Average grant
- $34,985
- -44.2% vs 2024
- Median grant
- $10,000
- Total assets
- $57,307,875
- +4.5% vs 2024
- New grantees (estimate)
- 70% first-time grantees (26 of 37, 2025)
- Primary geography
- Louisiana (99% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
- Latest 990 filing
- Form 990, 2025 View filing
Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated October 2026. New grantees are estimated by matching recipient names across years (methodology).
How to apply to New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
- How to Apply
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The Foundation directs applicants to its grant application portal for Community Partnership Grants.
- Review Cycle
- The 2026–2027 Community Partnership Grants deadline was July 8, 2026, at 11:00 p.m. CT.
- Deadline
- The 2026–2027 Community Partnership Grants deadline was July 8, 2026, at 11:00 p.m.
- Contact
Mailing address: 1205 N Rampart Street, New Orleans, LA 70116
Phone: (504) 558-6100
Website: https://jazzandheritage.org
Application details from Grantable's research on the foundation's public materials; confirm on its website before applying.
Open Grants
6 open opportunities from New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
Community Outreach Ticket Grant Program
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
Amount
Varies
Deadline
Deadline not published
Community Partnership Grants
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
Amount
Varies
Deadline
Deadline not published
Community Partnership Grants: Jazz & Heritage In-School Education Programs in Music, Arts, and Cultural Traditions
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
Amount
Up to US $5,000
Deadline
Deadline not published
Who New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc funds
How this funder distributes its grants
Top Recipients
Top 10 recipients in 2025
The largest 2025 recipient was Friends of Wwoz ($500K). Together the top 10 received $1.1M.
Grant Size Distribution
94 grants across all recorded years
The most common grant size was under $50K: 67 grants of 94 (71%).
Geographic Focus
Where this funder awards grants
The Foundation’s mission and Community Partnership Grants are centered on Louisiana. The 2025 filing data shows that 99% of grant dollars went to recipients in Louisiana and 1% to recipients in Illinois.
Grant Distribution by State
Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 37 itemized grants.
Cities
Is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc open to new grantees?
70%
first-time grantees, 2025
In 2025, 26 of 37 grantees (70%) were first-time recipients. First grants averaged $13K; repeat grants $86K. How we count
Medians: $8K first-time, $47K repeat.
Estimate from itemized grant lists in IRS Form 990 filings (2019–2025). Recipient names are matched across years, so a renamed or misspelled grantee can look new; grants to individuals are left out. Methodology.
Giving History
Giving Over Time
Total grant dollars and number of grants per year
From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $483K (2021) to $1.6M (2019). In 2025 it made 37 grants totaling $1.3M.
Grants by year
Grant recipients and amounts by year
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Friends of Wwoz New Orleans, LA | To provide assistance to the organization in broadcasting and streaming the music, concerts, and festivals of Louisiana around the world. | $500,000 |
| St Tammany Parish School Board Covington, LA | Community partnership grant - to make quality arts programs accessible throughout Louisiana and support the artists and nonprofits that create them. | $106,000 |
| Norman Dixon 2ND Line Parade Fund New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant- to provide security for the new orleans community for the black masking indians and social aid & pleasure 2nd line parades. | $100,000 |
| Preservation Resource Center New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant - homes and heritage program funding | $100,000 |
| National Performance Network New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant - to provide opportunities for capture of Louisiana culture via media documentation | $53,500 |
| New Orleans Musicians Assistance Fund New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant - to provide comprehensive health care, mental health, and social services for musicians. | $50,000 |
| Kipp New Orleans Inc New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant - to make quality arts programs accessible throughout Louisiana and support the artists and nonprofits that create them. | $47,000 |
| Jefferson Parish School Board Harvey, LA | Community partnership grant - to make quality arts programs accessible throughout Louisiana and support the artists and nonprofits that create them. | $42,000 |
| St Bernard Parish School Board Chalmette, LA | Community partnership grant - to make quality arts programs accessible throughout Louisiana and support the artists and nonprofits that create them. | $39,500 |
| Collegiate Academies New Orleans, LA | Community partnership grant - to make quality arts programs accessible throughout Louisiana and support the artists and nonprofits that create them, and class got brass award. | $26,812 |
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Financial History
Multi-year comparison from IRS filings
| Filing year | Total Assets | Revenue | Expenses | Grants paid | Grants | Net Investment Income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $57,307,875 | $61,887,065 | $62,150,446 | $1,294,462 | 37 | $3,893,626 |
| 2024 | $54,826,243 | $73,745,595 | $69,076,551 | $1,003,500 | 16 | $704,273 |
| 2023 | $45,032,172 | $53,166,410 | $52,274,521 | $887,000 | 13 | $573,584 |
| 2022 | $42,354,603 | $55,896,023 | $51,055,065 | $1,046,044 | 13 | $2,294,280 |
| 2021 | $55,852,647 | $11,473,899 | $9,985,073 | $483,172 | 15 | $3,547,235 |
| 2020 | $41,445,795 | $5,791,167 | $11,370,378 | $760,500 | 18 | $1,139,004 |
| 2019 | $40,910,949 | $50,535,109 | $45,507,259 | $1,610,550 | 24 | $434,200 |
Research compiled by Grantable AI from public sources. Last updated October 2026.
Mission & Focus Areas
The Foundation’s stated mission is to promote, preserve, perpetuate, and encourage the music, culture, and heritage of communities in Louisiana through festivals, programs, and other cultural, educational, civic, and economic activities.
Its Community Partnership Grants cover five areas: Education In-School, Education After-School, Jazz & Heritage Presenting, Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts & Creation, and Media: Documentation & Creation. The Foundation’s website describes these categories as supporting school-based arts instruction; nonprofit after-school and summer arts education; Louisiana-based performers at public cultural events; individual artists creating or documenting work reflecting Louisiana cultures; and nonprofit projects documenting or exhibiting work reflecting Louisiana’s indigenous culture. The Foundation also describes support for projects aligned with its mission, including cultural events, arts education, and new artistic works.
Grantees in 2025 included organizations with varied missions. Friends of WWOZ operates a noncommercial educational radio station that celebrates New Orleans and surrounding-region cultural diversity through music and information. The Preservation Resource Center describes its work as preserving and enhancing targeted historic New Orleans neighborhoods through community revitalization. National Performance Network says it works to advance racial and cultural justice in the arts and build artist power. New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation describes its work as providing musicians and tradition bearers access to health and social services. School grantees included organizations whose stated missions focus on public education, student opportunity, and college preparation.
Grantmaking
The IRS filing data lists 37 grants totaling $1,294,462 for filing year 2025. Grant amounts ranged from $6,000 to $500,000, with a median of $10,000. The Foundation’s website describes Community Partnership Grants as an annual program supporting projects aligned with its mission.
Among the largest grants listed for 2025 were $500,000 to Friends of WWOZ for assistance with broadcasting and streaming Louisiana music, concerts, and festivals; $106,000 to St. Tammany Parish School Board for arts-program access and support for artists and nonprofits; and $100,000 each to Norman Dixon 2nd Line Parade Fund for parade security and Preservation Resource Center for its Homes and Heritage program. Other listed awards included $53,500 to National Performance Network for media documentation of Louisiana culture and $50,000 to New Orleans Musicians Assistance Fund for musicians’ health care, mental health, and social services.
The Community Partnership Grants program’s five categories are available to Louisiana nonprofits and schools, as well as individual applicants in the Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts & Creation category. The website also lists eligibility for Louisiana-incorporated nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status, which must use a fiscal agent if awarded, and says individuals may not use fiscal agents. For-profit entities are not eligible for Community Partnership Grants. Grant recipients must report how funds were used; the Foundation states that recipients who do not submit a report are ineligible for future funding or assistance until they comply.
The Foundation also describes a Community Outreach Ticket program that distributes Jazz Fest tickets through nonprofit social-service organizations providing direct, ongoing services to low-income Louisiana residents. Tickets are distributed based on financial need and availability. This is an access program, rather than a grant program for outside applicants.
Leadership & Key People
Leadership team and compensation from IRS filings
The 2025 filing lists Rachel F Cousin as president and JR Pegues as second vice president. Directors listed include Candice Bates Anderson, David Torkanowsky (through September 2024), Gerald Billes, Julie Wise Oreck, Cecil CJ Blache, Skipper Bond, Virginia Miller, and Deborah D Harkins.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc is led by Blake-Anthony A. Johnson, CEO on the 2025 filing; 33 of 34 officers listed in 2025 are compensated.
Officers on the 2025 filing
Blake-Anthony A. Johnson
CEO
New on the 2025 filing
40 hrs/week
No compensation reported
Donald K. Marshall
Executive Director
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$145K (2019) → $189K (2025)
Rachel F. Cousin
President
Second Vice President → First Vice President, 2024
First Vice President → President, 2025
On filings since 2019
5 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Tara Carter Hernandez
President
Second Vice President → First Vice President, 2022
First Vice President → President, 2024
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$8K (2023) → $7K (2025)
Cecil Cj Blache
Director
On filings since 2019
5 hrs/week
$8K (2023) → $12K (2025)
David A. Kerstein
Director
On filings since 2019
2 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
David Torkanowsky
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$7K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Deborah D. Harkins
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Gerald Billes
Director
On filings since 2019
3 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Howard L. Rodgers III
Director
On filings since 2019
3 hrs/week
$7K (2023) → $9K (2025)
Jay H. Banks
Director
On filings since 2019
5 hrs/week
$3K (2023) → $11K (2025)
Julie Wise Oreck
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$8K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Karen Solomon
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Katy Roubion
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$8K (2023) → $9K (2025)
Leonard Smith III
Director
On filings since 2019
5 hrs/week
$5K (2023) → $6K (2025)
Richard F. Cortizas
Director
On filings since 2019
6 hrs/week
$7K (2023) → $11K (2025)
Ronald P. McClain
Director
On filings since 2019
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Sarita M. Carriere
Director of Finance
Director of Finance & Human Resource → Director of Finance & Human Resources, 2020
Director of Finance & Human Resources → Director of Finance, 2021
On filings since 2019
40 hrs/week
$124K (2019) → $170K (2025)
Skipper Bond
Director
On filings since 2019
5 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Candice Bates Anderson
Director
On filings since 2020
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Virginia Miller
Director
On filings since 2020
6 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Brittany Major
Director
On filings since 2021
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Caryn Rodgers-Battiste
Director
On filings since 2022
4 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Courtney Slatten Katzenstein
Director
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$9K (2024) → $12K (2025)
Monique Morial
Director
On filings since 2023
5 hrs/week
$4K (2023) → $6K (2025)
Jonathan S. Solari
Director of Development
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$117K (2024) → $136K (2025)
Lakia Robinson
Director of Mktg, Programs & Comms
Director of Marketing, Programs & Communications → Director of Mktg, Programs & Comms, 2025
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$104K (2024) → $120K (2025)
Flozell Daniels Jr.
Director
New on the 2025 filing
5 hrs/week
$4K (2025)
Ellen M. Lee
Secretary & Treasurer
Director → Secretary & Treasurer, 2025
On filings since 2019
8 hrs/week
$8K (2023) → $11K (2025)
Jr Pegues
2nd Vice President
Treasurer → Secretary & Treasurer, 2024
Secretary & Treasurer → 2nd Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2019
9 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Judge Sidney H. Cates IV
1st Vice President
Treasurer → Secretary, 2022
Secretary → 1st Vice President, 2025
On filings since 2019
8 hrs/week
$9K (2023) → $12K (2025)
Jarrod M. Remetich
Accountant
Development Associate → Accountant, 2024
On filings since 2023
40 hrs/week
$105K (2023) → $112K (2025)
Rachel Lyons
Archivist
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$102K (2024) → $106K (2025)
Shanna E. Hudson-Stowe
Development Associate
On filings since 2024
40 hrs/week
$101K (2024) → $105K (2025)
Former officers (14)
- Former: Sidney Cates (2024) — Second Vice President
- Former: David Francis (2019–2023) — President
- Former: Barbara Lacen Keller (2020–2023) — Director
- Former: Parker S. Robinson (2021–2023) — Director
- Former: Shanna E. Hudson Stowe (2023) — Accountant
- Former: Jeff Goldring (2019–2022) — President
- Former: Mickey Caplinger (2019–2021) — Director
- Former: Clifford V. Johnson (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Douglas Hammel (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Kathleen Turner (2019–2020) — President
- Former: Parker Sternbergh (2019–2020) — Director
- Former: Barbara Herman (2019) — Director
- Former: Donna Santiago (2019) — President
- Former: Scott Aiges (2019) — Director of Comunication, Marketing & Public Relat
Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.
Compensation Overview
From 2025 IRS filing
The highest reported compensation on the 2025 filing was $189K, to Donald K Marshall (Executive Director (Thru 12/2024)). 33 officers or directors reported compensation on that filing.
Frequently asked questions about New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc
How much does New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc give each year?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc gave $1.3M across 37 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $1.0M across 16 grants.
What is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's typical grant size?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's median grant in 2025 was $10,000, and its average grant was $34,985, across 37 grants on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Organizations receiving their first grant from New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc that year got $13K on average.
Where does New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc give grants?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc gives mostly in Louisiana: 99% of the grant dollars itemized on its 2025 IRS Form 990 went to recipients there. The most frequent recipient cities were New Orleans, LA (28 grants).
Does New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc give general operating support?
Not in 2025: none of the 37 grants with a stated purpose on New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's 2025 IRS Form 990 were described as general or operating support. Recurring purposes include "Community Partnership Grant - Sponsorship" (6 grants).
Who are New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's largest 2025 grantees include Friends of Wwoz ($500,000), St Tammany Parish School Board ($106,000) and Norman Dixon 2ND Line Parade Fund ($100,000), according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. Together they received 55% of its itemized 2025 grant dollars.
How large is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc reported $57.3M in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $61.9M.
What does New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc fund?
The Foundation’s stated mission is to promote, preserve, perpetuate, and encourage the music, culture, and heritage of communities in Louisiana through festivals, programs, and other cultural, educational, civic, and economic activities. See mission & focus areas ↑
How do I apply for a grant from New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc?
The Foundation directs applicants to its grant application portal for Community Partnership Grants. Eligibility and process details are in the grantmaking section of this profile. See how to apply ↑
What is New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's EIN?
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 72-0692744. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.
Data last updated October 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings. Research dossier generated October 2026.
Data update history
(8)
When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS July 9, 2021)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS July 12, 2022)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS July 13, 2023)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS July 11, 2024)
- Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS July 14, 2025)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS July 10, 2020)
- Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS July 15, 2026)
- IRS filings on file for fiscal years 2020–2024
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