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Kiwanis Club of Lafayette
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $53,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $77,221 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,221 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $13,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- KCKIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +101% · 100% of their budget
- DLDowntown Lafayette Unlimited6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +123%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC2× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- LLLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +60%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTone grant, 2024 · $8k
- CBCAMP BON COEUR INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…
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…
Expand upon the mission of Boys & Girls Clubs to promote the social welfare of youth in Louisiana by developing the foundation to increase resources identify shared services and strengthen brand awareness while holding ourselves…
The Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation raises funds for valuable library resources, offers engaging programming, and fosters community building to amplify the Lafayette Library and Learning Center's visibility, reach, and…
The Junior League of Baton Rouge, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its…
To contribute to children's education
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 Community Foundation of Lafayette helps connect generous and dedicated donors with local causes by supporting nonprofits, programs and projects that promote and enhance the civic, cultural, educational and general well-being of…
Inspiring, empowering and uniting children and communities through education, arts and culture.
We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.
Mission of the louisiana superintendent's academy is to respond to the need for strong leadership in louisiana school districts by creating a selective and rigorous professional learning experience to increase the pool of qualified…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Lafayette Unlimited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 12 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 KIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Downtown Lafayette Unlimited ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP BON COEUR INC ↗
- Who funds UNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SOLA 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: Love Our Schools · William C Schumacher Family Foundation · James D Moncus Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kiwanis Club of Lafayette 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.