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Community Foundation of Acadiana
The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 324 grants below total $18,598,286 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,575,230 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $976,944 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k73 grants · $500k
- $10k–50k191 grants · $3.8M
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+14 grants · $9.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lourdes Foundation | $3,142,333 |
| Our Lady of Wisdom Catholic Church & Student Center | $1,351,892 |
| Holy Family Catholic School | $1,040,600 |
| Moncus Park | $915,421 |
| Miles Perret Cancer Services | $546,899 |
| Episcopal School of Acadiana | $494,500 |
| Lafayette Parish School System | $402,911 |
| LSU Foundation | $339,750 |
| Witness to Love | $295,267 |
| Catholic Charities of Acadiana | $284,660 |
| Hope for Opelousas | $284,005 |
| VIN Foundation | $283,000 |
| Our Savior's Church | $268,175 |
| Helix Community Schools | $250,000 |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette Foundation | $249,550 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Community Foundation of Acadiana’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
387 repeat relationships — 238 still active in FY2024, 149 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- LCLafayette Central Park Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +22% · 77% of their budget
- LFLourdes Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +68% · 48% of their budget
- UOUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +122%
Funded once
- IWIgnitus Worldwide Inc fka Youth Crime Watch of America Incone grant, 2018 · $750k · 89% of their budget
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $340k · revenue +194%
- OSOur Savior's Churchone grant, 2017 · $276k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The sole mission of the foundation is to support, enhance and assist the lsu health sciences center at shreveport in its many endeavors.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…
The lsu real estate and facilities foundation's mission is to promote the educational and cultural welfare of lsu, and to develop, expand and improve the lsu's usefulness to the citizens of louisiana and the united states of america and to…
Work toward ending sexual violence through education, program support, and social change
To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
The patient-centered healthcare team of the lsu healthcare network will provide the highest quality, comprehensive medical care with compassion and professionalism, while maintaining our commitment to academic excellence
University is a 4 year private catholic institution, offering degrees in nursing, health/behavioral sciences, & humanities. the college is an integral part of the fmol health system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lourdes Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Olive Tree Sober Living. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
440 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 440 of the 729 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Lafayette Central Park Inc ↗
- Who funds Lourdes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILES PERRET CANCER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EIGHT DAYS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds IBERIA HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Louisiana Right to Life Educational Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR OPELOUSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SLCC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ignitus Worldwide Inc fka Youth Crime Watch of America Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE MINISTRY OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL THE GREAT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Witness To Love Marriage Prep Renewal Ministry ↗
- Who funds HUMAN LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROUD LOUISIANA LLC ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LHC GROUP EMPLOYEE HARDSHIP RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE GENERAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXTRA MILE REGION IV INC ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Animal Aid ↗
- Who funds ST LANDRY - EVANGELINE UNITED WAY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mills Family Foundation Inc · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · Zuschlag Family Foundation · The Rucks Family Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of Acadiana Inc · Haynie Family Foundation · Martial F Billeaud Sr Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Community Foundation of Acadiana funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.