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Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana
The COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA unites human and financial resources to effect permanent, positive, culture change. We impact southwest louisiana by positioning the community foundation to be a recognized leader and by empowering donors and proactively establishing grants for targeted programs.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 72
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.9M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,250
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $640,079
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 86
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 69 | $2.9M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $2.6M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $2.3M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $3.6M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $2.1M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 40 | $1.5M | 40% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNeese State University Foundation | $1,195,087 | 8 | 3% |
| Provident Resources Group Inc | $1,100,001 | 4 | 0% |
| Southwest Louisiana Alliance Foundation Inc | $854,820 | 8 | 25% |
| Oak Crossing Foundation | $640,079 | 1 | 83% |
| Southern Univerty System | $639,999 | 6 | 2% |
| Mennonite Disaster Service | $550,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Board | $548,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Fuller Center Disaster Rebuilders Inc | $505,000 | 2 | 8% |
| City of Westlake | $455,171 | 3 | n/a |
| Sowela Tech Community College Foundation | $442,755 | 5 | 15% |
Show all 200 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 21 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 131 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: United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc · Shearman Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Cheniere Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · CSE Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · The Scott Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana with peer funders
About Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana
- How much does Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana give?
- Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana reported 72 itemized grants totaling $2,921,369, out of $3,198,098 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 86 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: McNeese State University Foundation ($1.2M), Provident Resources Group Inc ($1.1M), Southwest Louisiana Alliance Foundation Inc ($855k).
- Does Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc, Shearman Foundation, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation.
- Where is Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana based?
- Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana is based in LA.
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