 In 1982, it was listed as one of 111 private schools whose non-profit status had been revoked by the IRS for their discriminatory policies — the only Louisiana school on the list.In the late 1990s, Silliman was one of 23 private schools in Louisiana ruled ineligible for that state's tuition grant program because of its continued refusal to adopt racially non-discriminatory admissions policies.A majority of the school's board of directors at the time refused to allow black children admission in order to become eligible for the grants.