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St John United Way

Uniting people and resources to create lasting changes in st.

$916k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$93k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MCrime & Legal$376kFood & Nutrition$318kYouth Development$263kHealth$260kArts & Culture$221kReligion$107kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $443,478, the rows itemized in this filing. The $915,807 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $472,329 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $286k
$24,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%ST JOHN RECOVERY GROUP: $466k → 16%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $60k → 23%ST JOHN RECOVERY GROUP: $329k → 16%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $60k → 23%ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $60k → 23%ST JOHN RECOVERY GROUP: $20k → 16%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $50k → 23%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $50k → 23%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $50k → 23%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $40k → 23%BACKPACK EXTRAVAGANZA VIA BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $7k → 11%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $25k → 23%ST JOHN COUNSELING SOLUTIONS: $18k → 23%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $133k → 16%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $59k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 23%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $36k → 16%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $36k → 16%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $36k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 23%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $21k → 16%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $20k → 16%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $19k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $14k → 23%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $17k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 23%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 23%NEW WINE CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 16%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $12k → 16%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $10k → 16%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $8k → 16%BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING: $8k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 25 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
8

Total granted

$4.0M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+29%

Still filing today

76%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionCivil 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

  • NW
    New Wine Development Corporation
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +169% · 51% of their budget
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $413k · revenue +4%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $334k · revenue +4% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +29%
  • SJ
    ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH COUNCIL
    one grant, 2019 · $35k
  • M
    MODESTY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc
Health
2
Center for Family and Youth Services

Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

Human Services
3
St John Arc

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.

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4
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

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5
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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6
Casa of Central Louisiana Inc

Court appointed special advocate for children in foster care

Human Services
7
Louisiana Council of Resources

Justice involved persons rentry and housing program

Crime & Legal
8
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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9
Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Louisiana

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.

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10
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America Inc Northwest La Chapter

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

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11
Inter-Tribal Council of Louisiana Inc

To provide leadership, advocacy, and services on behalf of all Native Americans within the geographic area of the state of Louisiana.

Employment
12
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Wine Development Corporation: $1,165,311 · Human ServicesNew Wine Development CorporationCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $413,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANSMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $242,000 · Human ServicesMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $103,000 · Human ServicesGREATER NEW ORLEANS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $94,800 · Human ServicesBlessed to Be A Blessing International: $86,674 · Human Services+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE: $333,500 · OtherST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARETHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $168,928 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONVIA LINK INC: $120,500 · OtherVIA LINK INCVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $103,811 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCThe ARC of St Charles Inc: $82,500 · OtherThe ARC of St Charles IncST JOHN THE BAPTIST 4H FOUNDATION: $72,000 · OtherST JOHN THE BAPTIST 4H FOUNDATI…SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $70,000 · OtherSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY…SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC: $41,500 · Other+10 more: $165,420 · Other+10 moreSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $318,440 · Food & NutritionCHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $296,000 · Civil RightsGIRL SCOUTS LOUISIANA EAST INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $36,250 · Youth DevelopmentCANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN: $59,200 · HealthLOUISIANA CANCER REGISTRARS ASSOCIATION: $18,000 · HealthTHE RIGHT CHOICE PROJECT: $10,000 · HealthST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $28,000 · Arts & CultureSt James Community Theater: $24,500 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$2,119,785Other$1,158,159Food & Nutrition$318,440Civil Rights$296,000Youth Development$96,250Health$87,200Arts & Culture$52,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Wine Development Corporation: $1,165,311 over 8y, 51% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $413,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN MINISTRY OF CARE: $333,500 over 8y, 63% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $318,440 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $296,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $242,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION: $168,928 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVIA LINK INC: $120,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $103,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC: $94,800 over 7y, 23% of budgetBlessed to Be A Blessing International: $86,674 over 7y, 26% of budgetThe ARC of St Charles Inc: $82,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetST JOHN THE BAPTIST 4H FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $70,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS LOUISIANA EAST INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN: $59,200 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC: $41,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR THE INNOVATIVE TRAINING OF YOUTH INC: $36,250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST JOHN COMMUNITY THEATRE: $28,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetSt James Community Theater: $24,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetLOUISIANA CANCER REGISTRARS ASSOCIATION: $18,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetLOUISIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE RIGHT CHOICE PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 38% 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.

  • 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 MODESTY ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RIGHT CHOICE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE FOR SINGLE PARENTS ↗

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.

United Way of Southea…The Greater New Orlea…United Way of St Char…Shell USA Company Fou…Capital Area United W…Northshore Community …Ochsner Clinic Founda…Second Harvest Food B…Louise H Moffett Fami…Unity of Greater New …Goldring Family Found…Baptist Community Min…
United Way of Southeast LouisianaLA32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 St John United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St John United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    7report 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 St John United Way?

    Find your warmest path to St John United Way 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 34 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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