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Power Coalition for Equity and Justice

We are a team of organizations who believe in the power of community and taking action.

$749k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Arts & Culture$200kPublic Benefit$116kCivil Rights$81kCommunity Improvement$61kCrime & Legal$52kHuman Services$50kEnvironment$45kPhilanthropy$31k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $510,775 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $748,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $237,725 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CULTURAL CROSSROADS INC$125,000
LOUISIANA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES$50,000
MEMPHIS ARTISTS FOR CHANGE$50,000
THE CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE INC$50,000
SOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA'S INCARCERATED CHILDREN$28,000
LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION$25,000
STEP UP LOUISIANA ORGANIZING FUND$25,000
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH$25,000
A SANI HEARTBEAT FOUNDATION$23,750
ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY$20,000
INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY$11,000
FOR PROVIDERS BY PROVIDERS$10,000
A BELLA LAFEMME SOCIETY$6,025
OUR VOICE NEUSTRA VOZ$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 19%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 19%OUR VOICE NEUSTRA VOZ: $6k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Louisiana Resource Center for Educators

Louisiana Resource Center for Educators is dedicated to supporting innovation in education for students, teachers, administrators, higher education, and families.

2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
3
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
4
New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee

a Education and outreach for systems change in order to improve equity opportunity and collaboration in the local food system. b Convening and engage individuals organizations and businesses working in the food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
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.

6
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc

The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.

7
Together 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…

Public Benefit
8
Southern Center for Children & Families Inc

The Center for Children and Families, Inc. was organized for the advocacy of children in the court and foster care systems within the Fourth Judicial District of Louisiana, and to do any and all things germane, incidental and necessary to…

Civil Rights
9
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
10
For a Better Bayou

To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.

Environment
11
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

12
Louisiana Primary Care Association Inc

The Louisiana Primary Care Association, Inc. works to promote community based health services through advocacy, education, public awareness and leveraging resources.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children and the most unlike its peers is Our Voice Nuestra Voz. 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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
1/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CULTURAL CROSSROADS INC — $125,000 · OtherCULTURAL CROSSROADS INCMicah Project — $50,000 · OtherMicah ProjectThe Louisiana Museum Foundation — $25,000 · OtherThe Louisiana Museum FoundationA SANI HEARTBEAT — $23,750 · OtherA SANI HEARTBEATFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN — $28,000 · OtherFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED C…For Providers by Providers Louisiana — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $18,025 · Other+3 moreSOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MUTUAL H…WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH — $25,000 · Civil RightsWOMENS FOU…Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund — $25,000 · Civil RightsStep Up Lo…INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $11,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE …LOUISIANA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $50,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE — $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMemphis Artists for Change — $50,000 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $45,000 · Environment
Other$279,775Community Improvement$100,000Civil Rights$61,000Public Benefit$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Environment$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetLOUISIANA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMemphis Artists for Change — $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILIES AND FRIENDS OF LOUISIANAS INCARCERATED CHILDREN — $28,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFor Providers by Providers Louisiana — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOUR VOICE NUESTRA VOZ — $6,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budget
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.

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.

Foundation for LouisianaLA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for Louisiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · WK Kellogg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Power Coalition for Equity and Justice 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Power Coalition for Equity and Justice?

    Find your warmest path to Power Coalition for Equity and Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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