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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $510,775, the rows itemized in this filing. The $748,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $237,725 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.

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
SOUTHERN MUTUAL HELP ASSOCIATION INC$50,000
THE CENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE INC$50,000
FAMILIES & FRIENDS OF LOUISIANA'S INCARCERATED CHILDREN$28,000
STEP UP LOUISIANA ORGANIZING FUND$25,000
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH$25,000
LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOUNDATION$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

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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Its 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 its 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
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 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
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.

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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
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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5
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.

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6
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
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
For a Better Bayou

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

Environment
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
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,…

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11
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
12
Higher Purpose Hub

The Higher Purpose Hub (HPH) is a regional nonprofit intermediary focused on improving intergenerational economic opportunity across the Mississippi Delta. HPH works with local, state, regional, and national partners to create impact.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children; 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 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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
1/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $25,000 · Civil RightsStep Up Lo…WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: $25,000 · Civil RightsWOMENS FOU…INSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY: $11,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE …LOUISIANA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $50,000 · Public BenefitMemphis Artists for Change: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE ENERGY: $45,000 · Environment
Other$279,775Community Improvement$100,000Civil Rights$61,000Public Benefit$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Environment$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMemphis Artists for Change: $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetCENTER FOR PLANNING EXCELLENCE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 budgetThe Louisiana Museum Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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
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.

Foundation for Louisi…The Greater New Orlea…The Kresge FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundWK Kellogg FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Mary Reynolds Babcock…Bvm Capacity Building…Tides FoundationThe Ford FoundationFidelity Investments …
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

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 Power Coalition for Equity and Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Power Coalition for Equity and Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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