2023 Louisiana Culture Care Fund Recipients
The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities has awarded $425,000 in general operating grants from the Louisiana Culture Care Fund (LCCF) to 45 humanities organizations in 26 parishes. The LCCF originally launched in 2020 in an effort to help mitigate impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s fund, with support from the State of Louisiana, continues to provide Louisiana’s cultural nonprofits with this vital funding.
The funds will help organizations remain financially solvent by supporting operational expenses such as staff payroll and benefits, rent, mortgage, insurance, and utilities. The grants were awarded to 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural organizations, public libraries, and state and federally recognized Tribes with strong humanities focus, such as museums, historic sites, and archives, as well as the state’s diverse array of humanities-focused media, festivals, and more. Awards ranged between $5,000 and $15,000.
Organizations receiving grants span the farthest corners of the state, from Cameron to Caddo Parishes and East Carroll to Lafourche Parishes. See below for the full list of LCCF grant recipients. More details about the amounts awarded, the LCCF and the LEH’s grant programs may be found at www.leh.org/grants.
Louisiana Culture Care Fund recipients
Acadiana Center for the Arts Lafayette Lafayette Parish $15,000
Alexandria Museum of Art Alexandria Rapides Parish $10,000
Amistad Research Center New Orleans Orleans Parish $15,000
Ascension Parish Library Gonzales Ascension Parish $15,000
Backstreet Cultural Museum New Orleans Orleans Parish $5,000
Baton Rouge Gallery Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish $10,000
Bayou Lafourche Folklife and Heritage Museum Lockport Lafourche Parish $5,000
Brimstone Historical Society Sulphur Calcasieu Parish $5,000
Caddo Pine Island Oil & Oil City Caddo Parish $5,000
Dorcheat Historical Association Minden Webster Parish $5,000
East Carroll Parish Library Lake Providence East Carroll Parish $10,000
Friends of Beauregard-Keyes House New Orleans Orleans Parish $5,000
Friends of the Battle of New Orleans Chalmette St. Bernard Parish $5,000
Friends of the Chennault Monroe Ouachita Parish $10,000
Friends of the Delta Ferriday Concordia Parish $5,000 |
Friends of the LSU Museum of Art
Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish $10,000
Friends of the New Orleans New Orleans Orleans Parish $10,000
Imperial Calcasieu Museum Lake Charles Calcasieu Parish $10,000
Lafayette Museum Association Lafayette Lafayette Parish $10,000
LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana New Orleans Orleans Parish $5,000
Louisiana Anthology Ruston Lincoln Parish $5,000
Louisiana Art & Science Museum Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish $15,000
Louisiana Landmarks Society New Orleans Orleans Parish $10,000
Louisiana Military Museum Abbeville Vermilion Parish $5,000
Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum Foundation Angola West Feliciana Parish $10,000
Maritime Museum Louisiana Madisonville St. Tammany Parish $10,000
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience New Orleans Orleans Parish $15,000
New Iberia Museum Foundation (Bayou Teche Museum) New Iberia Iberia Parish $10,000
Northeast Louisiana Arts Council Monroe Ouachita Parish $10,000
Northeast Louisiana Children’s Museum Monroe Ouachita Parish $10,000 |
Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center Opelousas St. Landry Parish $5,000
Pointe Coupee Historical Society New Roads Pointe Coupee Parish $10,000
Press Street (Antenna) New Orleans Orleans Parish $15,000
Regional Military Museum Foundation Houma Terrebonne Parish $10,000
River Road African American Museum Donaldsonville Ascension Parish $10,000
River Road Historical Society (Destrehan Plantation) Destrehan St. Charles Parish $15,000
Robinson Film Center Shreveport Caddo Parish $15,000
Saint Luc French Immersion and Cultural Campus Arnaudville St. Landry Parish $5,000
Shadows-on-the-Teche New Iberia Iberia Parish $10,000
Southern Forest Heritage Museum Longleaf Rapides Parish $10,000
Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana Marksville Avoyelles Parish $10,000
Union Museum of History and Art Farmerville Union Parish $5,000
United Houma Nation, Inc. Houma Terrebonne Parish $10,000
West Baton Rouge Historical Association (West Baton Rouge Museum) Port Allen West Baton Rouge Parish $15,000
Zigler Art Museum Foundation Jennings Jefferson Davis Parish $10,000 |