· Public charity
Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association D/B/A Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
The mission of lake charles memorial hospital is to identify and improve the health of the people of south louisiana and east texas by providing a full spectrum of innovative services-including health education, disease prevention, and diagnostic and treatment options-in a personalized, caring and safe manner throughout the region.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $139,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $149,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENT RESOURCES GROUP INC | $100,000 |
| VAN WAGNER SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT | $25,000 |
| THE CHAMBER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA | $8,300 |
| AM BARBE HIGH SCHOOL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +70% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- PRProvident Resources Group Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $500k · revenue +71%
- SLSOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2020 · $241k · revenue +128% · 74% of their budget
- LHLouisiana High School Athletic Association3× · 2017–2019 · $49k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- STSOWELA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $106k · revenue +68%
- UWUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Incone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -21%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +43%
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.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
Attract new business to southwest louisiana.
The Southeastern Louisiana University Foundation (SLUF) is a 501(c)(3) corporation charged with securing, managing and stewarding private gifts in support of Southeastern Louisiana University. Private support increases the University's…
Helping members with their financial needs
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…
To act as a fundraising arm, in an agency relationship for the lsu health sciences center.
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
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…
To Promote Charitable, Educational, Scientic and Cultural Studies for Louisiana Community and Technical College System: to solicit and accept gifts, grants, appropriations, bequests and funds, including property, in order to provide…
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metanoia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 Provident Resources Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOWELA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Louisiana High School Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S COMMISSION OF SOUTHWEST LA ↗
- Who funds METANOIA INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LOCAL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Southwest Louisiana Hospital Association D/B/A Lake Charles Memorial Hospital 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.