The Contemporary Arts Center is supported in part by CAC members; by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art; by a grant from the Louisiana State Arts Council through the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the NEA; by a Community Arts Grant made possible by the City of New Orleans as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans; and by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation; Freeport-McMoRan Foundation, Zemurray Foundation; Goldring Family Foundation; Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation; ChevronTexaco Corporation; and Entergy Corporation.

Visual Arts programs of the Contemporary Arts Center are supported by the Sydney & Walda Besthoff Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Education programs are supported by Target, ChevronTexaco Corporation, Entergy Corporation and the Helis Foundation. The CAC Summer Art Camp is made possible in part by the Emeril Lagasse Foundation.

Additional support for Performing Arts programs comes from American Luxury Limousines, Renaissance Arts Hotel and Propaganda/Express Lighting. Generous support also comes from Regions Bank and the NonProfit Finance Fund/Midsize Presenting Organizations Initiative. Special thanks goes to Phelps Dunbar LLP, the official sponsor of the Music of New Orleans Series.