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CSE Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOWELA | $25,000 |
| West Cal Cam Hospital | $5,500 |
| Arts & Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana | $5,000 |
| Smoke and Barrel Inc | $5,000 |
| Family & Youth Counseling Agency Inc | $5,000 |
| Fusion Five | $4,000 |
| Calcasieu Area CouncilBoy Scouts | $3,000 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters | $3,000 |
| Calcasieu Council on Aging | $3,000 |
| Autisum Services of SWLA | $2,500 |
| This is Home Fest | $2,500 |
| McNeese Foundation | $2,500 |
| Black Heritage Festival of Louisiana | $2,500 |
| Families for Inclusion | $2,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 20 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SSOWELA2× · 2024–2025 · $52k
- WCWest Cal Cam Hospital2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
- FFFUSION FIVE2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
Funded once
- AHArts Humanities Councilone grant, 2024 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- FYFamily Youth Counseling Agencyone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To promote, organize and support Celtic cultural events, educate the community on Celtic culture and history, support various charitable causes and foundations, and become a good citizen in the community.
Educate public on special interest in Louisiana
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
The Highland Area Partnership is an arts and culture nonprofit organization that is dedicated to cultivating and connecting our community through music, food, and the arts. The purpose of this festival is to give the community access to…
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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 primary mission of the louisiana cultural economic foundation is to be a catalyst for the development and enhancement of the district cultural industries of louisiana by promoting the economic health and quality of life of our cultural…
To support disaster relief organizations and other charitible organizations throughout the State of Louisiana.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lake Charles Symphony Inc and the most unlike its peers is This is Home Fest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 46 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
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 This is Home Fest Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Smoke & Barrel Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
- Who funds Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds SULPHUR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BUILD A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHARLES SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Mn Davidson Foundation · Shearman Foundation · United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 CSE Community Foundation 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.
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.
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