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Kiwanis Club of Lafayette at a glance

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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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$117kEducation$83kYouth Development$55kArts & Culture$50kRecreation & Sports$40kPhilanthropy$12kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $53,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $77,221 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $24,221 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$13,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$146k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION$30,000
ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$13,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM - MYRTLE PLACE ELEMENTARY: $6k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $6k → 19%LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM: $24k → 17%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $5k → 19%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACADIANA - LOVE OUR SCHOOLS: $12k → 17%LAFAYETTE LITTLE LEAGUE: $10k → 17%LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL SYSTEM: $9k → 17%LAFAYETTE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD: $7k → 17%CASA OF SOLA: $5k → 17%ULL FOUNDATION - HILLIARD ART MUSEUM: $5k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $17k → 17%ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $13k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $9k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $8k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $6k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $6k → 17%CAMP BON COEUR INC: $5k → 17%ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE UNLIMITED: $5k → 17%ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%ACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$316k · 6 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$316k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+60%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $142k · revenue +101% · 100% of their budget
  • DL
    Downtown Lafayette Unlimited
    6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +123%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • LL
    LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • CB
    CAMP BON COEUR INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Future Athletes of Louisiana

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Central Louisiana Chamber of Commerce

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…

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3
Boys & Girls Clubs in Louisiana Inc

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…

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4
Laura Center for Creole Heritage
Arts & Culture
5
Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation

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…

Education
6
Junior League of Baton Rouge Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Childrens Museum of Acadiana

To contribute to children's education

Arts & Culture
8
The Foundation for Historic Louisiana dba Preserve Louisiana

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.

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9
Community Foundation of Lafayette

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…

Philanthropy
10
Young Audiences of Louisiana Inc

Inspiring, empowering and uniting children and communities through education, arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Louisiana Children's Research Center Development & Learning Inc

We advance literacy and learning through evidence-based practices in the classroom, home, and community.

Human Services
12
The Louisiana Superintendents Academy Co James Meza

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Univ of Louisiana At Lafayette Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Downtown Lafayette Unlimited: $50,503 · OtherDowntown Lafayette UnlimitedLafayette Parish School System: $45,166 · OtherLafayette Parish School SystemACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $33,000 · OtherACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $10,000 · OtherLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INCJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION: $142,000 · Human ServicesKIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…Community Foundation of Acadiana: $12,391 · PhilanthropyJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $10,600 · InternationalUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationCASA OF SOLA INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Other$151,169Human Services$142,000Youth Development$35,000Philanthropy$12,391International$10,600Education$5,000Civil Rights$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION: $142,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetDowntown Lafayette Unlimited: $50,503 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetACADIANA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $33,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Acadiana: $12,391 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater Baton Rouge Inc: $10,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCAMP BON COEUR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetUNIV OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF SOLA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

Love Our SchoolsWilliam C Schumacher …James D Moncus Family…Community Foundation …The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Love Our SchoolsLA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kiwanis Club of Lafayette funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kiwanis Club of Lafayette. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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