· Public charity
St John United Way
Uniting people and resources to create lasting changes in st.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $443,478 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $915,807 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $472,329 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF GNO | $93,440 |
| ST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE | $84,000 |
| NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $59,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $30,038 |
| METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY | $30,000 |
| RIVER PARISH COMMUNITY THEATRE | $24,500 |
| ST JOHN 4H FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GNO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $15,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS COUNCIL OF SOUTHEASTERN LA | $15,000 |
| CANCER ASSOCIATION OF LOUISIANA | $10,000 |
| BACKPACK EXTRAVAGANZA VIA BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING | $7,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NWNew Wine Development Corporation8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +169% · 51% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS6× · 2018–2023 · $413k · revenue +4%
- SJST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE8× · 2018–2025 · $334k · revenue +53% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +29%
- SJST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $35k
- L4LOUISIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +83%
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 work through education, research and advocacy while providing services to enhance the quality of life for citizens with mental and developmental disabilities. additionally, appropriate services are provided for the clients by caregivers.
Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
Court appointed special advocate for children in foster care
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
The mission of the boys & girls clubs of southeast louisiana is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring,responsible citizens.
Justice involved persons rentry and housing program
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…
To provide high quality service programs designed to meet the sickle cell non-medical needs including education counseling and psychosocial of individuals with sickle cell conditions
Promote, develope, supervise, and voluntarily assist in all lawful ways, the interest of those who will participate in Little League Baseball and Softball
To provide leadership, advocacy, and services on behalf of all Native Americans within the geographic area of the state of Louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is St John Community Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 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 New Wine Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIA LINK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Blessed to Be A Blessing International ↗
- Who funds The ARC of St Charles Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN THE BAPTIST 4H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS LOUISIANA EAST INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds St James Community Theater ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA CANCER REGISTRARS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MODESTY ↗
- Who funds THE RIGHT CHOICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE FOR SINGLE PARENTS ↗
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: United Way of Southeast Louisiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · United Way of St Charles · Shell USA Company Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Northshore Community Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc · Goldring Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries
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 St John United Way 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.
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