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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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $777k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAK CROSSING FOUNDATION | $640,079 |
| CITY OF WESTLAKE | $235,171 |
| TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $170,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $155,202 |
| MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $118,693 |
| PROVIDENT RESOURCES GROUP INC | $100,000 |
| APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN HARVESTCALL | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS FOUNDATION | $96,000 |
| TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| LIVING WATER LAKE CHARLES GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH | $77,166 |
| CORPORATION OF ST MARGARET'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $75,958 |
| CALCASIEU PARISH SCHOOL BOARD | $54,250 |
| CAMERON EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE ENDEAVORS INC | $53,725 |
| CHEMICAL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC | $46,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $844k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 29 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +70%
- PRProvident Resources Group Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +91%
- SLSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +22% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA INCone grant, 2020 · $250k
- RDRECREATION DISTRICT 1 OF WARD 4 - CALCASIEU PARISHone grant, 2019 · $166k
- SCSamaritan Counseling Center of Southeast Texasgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $105k · revenue +33%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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 Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce is: to promote economic growth for central Louisiana and its citizens; to serve as a business advocate for our members; and to foster a business climate that supports business and…
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.
To Promote Charitable, Educational, Scientic and Cultural Studies for Louisiana Community and Technical College System: to solicit and accept gifts, grants, appropriations, bequests and funds, including property, in order to provide…
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
To enhance the catholic churches, parishes, schools and services in the communities of south louisiana.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
How this is measured
143 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 207 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Provident Resources Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OAK CROSSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER DISASTER REBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SOWELA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Chemical Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BISHOP NOLAND EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Coastal Plain Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CALCASIEU AREA COUNCIL 209 ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
- Who funds SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds CARE HELP OF SULPHUR INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME AND FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds A House Unbuilt % Victoria Bradford Styrbicki ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana. Bigger dots raise more.
- Air Institute Corporation: 18% of income from government
How this is measured
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