· Private foundation
Corporate Works of Mercy Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k67 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LA | $20,000 |
| FAITH HOUSE | $15,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| AVOYELLES COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| CENLA PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ST EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| HIXSON BROTHERS FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| MILLER & HILL FUNERAL DIRECTORS | $2,500 |
| ESCUDE FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| KILPATRICK ROSE-NEATH FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| WINNFIELD MEMORIAL FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| KILPATRICK ROSE-NEATH FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
| MILLER & HILL FUNERAL DIRECTORS | $2,500 |
| KING'S FUNERAL HOME | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 27%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Corporate Works of Mercy Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 91%.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FHFaith House Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +61%
- TFTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA5× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +105%
- ACAvoyelles Council on Aging Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF CENTRA LAone grant, 2024 · $40k
- FHFAITH HOUSE-CENLA SHELTERone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $21k
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.
Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.
To improve the health of the people we serve.
Assist needy individuals in st mary parish, louisiana
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need
Provide Supplies and Labor for Disasters
Public Charity
Provide services to people 55 and older
Provide Title 111 services to approximately 300 unduplicated seniors in LaSalle Parish to include chor, information and assistance,outreach telephoning and transportation, meals, and senior activities.
See schedule o - mission statement for part i line 1 covers this item
Provide housing facilities and services to the elderly, handicapped, and substance-dependent persons of opelousas and ville platte, louisiana
To provide services to the elderly age 60 and above in Concordia Parish, La. that enables them to remain at home in their community
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 265 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.
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: Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Corporate Works of Mercy Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Corporate Works of Mercy Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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