NOUS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

Q21

Classification

2000

Street

906 ROYAL ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

• WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WE CREATED A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF LOUISIANA MUSIC IN FRENCH AND CREOLE. THE ALBUM WE RECORDED FEATURED 6 ARTISTS AND MUSICAL ENSEMBLES (REPRESENTING DIFFERENT MUSICAL GENRES FROM LOUISIANA) AND A TOTAL OF 12 TRACKS (35 MINUTES). THIS PROJECT, WHICH ALSO RESULTED IN THE PUBLICATION OF A BOOK (COMPILING THE TRANSCRIPTIONS OF THE INTERVIEWS WE CONDUCTED WITH EACH ARTIST) AND A SHORT FILM (PRODUCED WITH THE SUPPORT OF CREATELOUISIANA), AIMED TO DOCUMENT HOW ARTISTS PERPETUATE LOUISIANA'S CENTURIES-LONG TRADITION OF SINGING IN FRENCH AND CREOLE. OUR BOOK AND ALBUM ARE NOW ARCHIVED IN THE PERMANENT COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

  Expenses $80,659

• FROM MAY TO JULY 2025, WE PRESENTED "MUSIQUE(S)", L'EXPOSITION, TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF OUR MUSIQUE(S) PROJECT, A CONTEMPORARY ANTHOLOGY OF LOUISIANA MUSIC IN FRENCH AND CREOLE PRESENTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. THROUGH THIS INTERACTIVE AND IMMERSIVE EXHIBITION, WE PRESENTED ALL MUSICIANS AND MUSICAL ENSEMBLES FEATURED ON OUR ALBUM AND PUT THEIR WORK IN PERSPECTIVE WITH ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE. WE ALSO PRESENTED EXTRACTS FROM OUR FILM AND RECREATED A STUDIO ROOM WHERE WE PLAYED B-ROLL OF THE MUSICIANS PERFORMING. THIS EXHIBITION WAS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL.

  Expenses $18,276

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $19,653 · Grants $19,653

• OTHER PROGRAM EXPENSES (TOTAL = $7,513)(1) GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS (= $6,197)AWARDED SCHOLARSHIPS TO TWO LOUISIANA TEACHERS TO HAVE THEM PARTICIPATE IN A PEGAGOGICAL TRAINING SESSION AT CAVILAM DE VICHY, IN FRANCE, IN JULY 2024 ($3,800)AWARDED A TRAVEL GRANT TO A FRENCH FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR BASED IN CHICAGO TO HAVE THEM CONDUCT FIELD RESEARCH IN NEW ORLEANS ($1,697)AWARDED A TRAVEL GRANT TO HAVE A FRENCH JOURNALIST PARTICIPATE IN WORKSHOPS WITH FRENCH IMMERSION SCHOOL STUDENTS ($700)(2) CREATION OF INTERACTIVE MAP (= $1,062)WORKED ON THE CURATION OF A DIGITAL AND INTERACTIVE MAP TO LIST LOUISIANA'S HERITAGE SITES ASSOCIATED WITH OUR CAJUN/CREOLE CULTURES. (3) ORGANIZATION OF SMALL RECEPTION FOR NEW ORLEANS FILM SOCIETY (= $254)ORGANIZED THE CLOSING RECEPTION FOR THE NEW ORLEANS FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL (MARCH 2025). PURCHASED SOME FOOD AND DRINKS FOR OUR GUESTS.

  Expenses $7,513 · Grants $6,197

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2024

  Revenue

  $263,929

  Expenses

  $228,856

  Contributions

  $249,034

  Grants paid

  $25,850

• 2023

  Revenue

  $181,118

  Expenses

  $146,621

  Contributions

  $142,114

  Grants paid

  $6,438

• 2022

  Revenue

  $133,413

  Expenses

  $80,665

  Contributions

  $89,731

  Grants paid

  $7,950

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $74,830

  Expenses

  $52,823

  Assets (EOY)

  $58,638

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period

1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021

Principal officer

Show names as filed Scott TiltonSCOTT TILTON

Mailing address

906 ROYAL STREETNEW ORLEANS LA 70116

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

  $16,000

  2022 · PROGRAM SERVICE

• WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION

  $15,000

  2023 · SOCIAL JUSTICE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $12,500

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $11,119

  2022 · FUND RAISING & FUND DISTRIBUTION

• WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2022 · SOCIAL JUSTICE

• LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES

  $10,000

  2024 · PROGRAM SERVICE

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $9,558

  2023 · FUND RAISING & FUND DISTRIBUTION

• THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION

  $7,945

  2024 · INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $0

  2025 · GENERAL SUPPORT

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