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United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $962,753 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,011,892 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,139 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 · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
- $250k+2 grants · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Louisiana Conference UMC | $390,153 |
| Turning Point USA | $250,000 |
| Hope MInistries | $60,000 |
| Salvation Army | $50,000 |
| Tiger Athletic Foundation | $50,000 |
| Texas Hill Country Comm Church | $41,500 |
| La Methodist Childrens Home | $36,600 |
| First Methodist Coushatta | $33,100 |
| Trinity Methodist | $27,200 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $10,000 |
| Waldheim Methodist | $9,200 |
| Black Mountain Home | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 26%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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 +43% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k 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
- LULOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +13%
- TATIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $115k · revenue +43%
- YOYMCA of Northwest Louisiana2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
- LCLOUISIANA CONFERENCE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $160k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEone grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue 0%
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.
Provides housing for elderly and disabled persons and families under section 207/223(f) of the national housing act under an agreement with the department of hud.
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.
Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the charitable, scientific, and educational purposes of advancing, promoting, and supporting the health care ministries of those religious congregations (the "sponsoring…
Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.
Management of affordable rental units for the elderly and handicapped - hud projects
Inspired by the vision of st. francis and in the tradition of the roman catholic church, we extend the healing ministry of jesus christ to god's people, especially those most in need. we call forth all who serve in this healthcare…
Coordinating parent of charitable healthcare system guiding activities of affiliated entities to provide quality healthcare services to the community.
Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 28 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 THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Northwest Louisiana ↗
- Who funds FRONT YARD BIKES ↗
- Who funds ROSS LYNN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Christus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier ↗
- Who funds MacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH RAMPART COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA ASSOC OF GREATER BATON ROUGE THE BRIGHTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DULAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: Albemarle Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc 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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