Louisiana · Public charity
Capital Area United Way
To improve lives by leveraging partnerships in our community to advance the common good through education access, economic mobility, and healthy living.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $162,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 72
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Capital Area United Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $2.6M | 4% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $2.8M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $3.3M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $4.9M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $3.6M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $3.2M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $3.7M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 66 | $5.8M | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc | $1,788,726 | 9 | 4% |
| The Emerge Center Inc | $1,633,647 | 8 | 97% |
| Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge | $1,531,074 | 9 | 19% |
| Volunteers of America Inc | $1,388,208 | 6 | n/a |
| The Arc of Louisiana | $1,283,775 | 5 | 33% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc | $1,211,441 | 9 | 16% |
| Big Buddy Program | $1,151,225 | 7 | 13% |
| Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank | $1,077,054 | 9 | 1% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,053,076 | 9 | n/a |
| YWCA of Greater Baton Rouge | $989,425 | 9 | 4% |
Show all 184 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($246k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Capital Area United Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Baton Rouge Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Pennington Family Foundation · Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Inc
How this is measured
About Capital Area United Way
- How much does Capital Area United Way give?
- Capital Area United Way reported 47 itemized grants totaling $2,554,523, out of $2,708,363 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 72 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Capital Area United Way fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (20%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Capital Area United Way's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge Inc ($1.8M), The Emerge Center Inc ($1.6M), Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge ($1.5M).
- Does Capital Area United Way fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Capital Area United Way?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Huey & Angelina Wilson Foundation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation.
- Where is Capital Area United Way based?
- Capital Area United Way is based in LA.
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