· Private foundation
CSE Community Foundation
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, FY2024 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Calcasieu Council on Aging | $3,000 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters | $3,000 |
| McNeese Foundation | $2,500 |
| This is Home Fest | $2,500 |
| Autisum Services of SWLA | $2,500 |
| Black Heritage Festival of Louisiana | $2,500 |
| Families for Inclusion | $2,500 |
| American Cancer Society | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- FYFamily Youth Counseling Agencyone grant, 2024 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 46 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
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 AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
- Who funds Smoke & Barrel Inc ↗
- Who funds Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds This is Home Fest Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds SULPHUR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BUILD A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL CALCASIEU MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHARLES SYMPHONY INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization CSE Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from CSE Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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