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United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc

Support the ministries of the Methodist church through planned giving services - trusts and endowments

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$390k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$2.0MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$277kPublic Benefit$263kRecreation & Sports$115kHousing & Shelter$91kInternational$37kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $962,753, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,011,892 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,139 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 · $14k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
  • $250k+2 grants · $640k
$41,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Louisiana Conference UMC$390,153
Turning Point USA$250,000
Hope MInistries$60,000
Tiger Athletic Foundation$50,000
Salvation Army$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Black Mountain Home: $5k → 12%MACDONELLS CHILDRENS HOME: $5k → 16%Black Mountain Home: $5k → 12%LA umc CHILDREN & fAMILY: $36k → 32%MacDonnels Childrens Home: $5k → 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 13 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$2.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

54%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $347k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEducationReligionPublic BenefitOther
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

  • LU
    LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $125k · revenue +13%
  • TA
    TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $115k · revenue +43%
  • YO
    YMCA of Northwest Louisiana
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +8%
  • LC
    LOUISIANA CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $160k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $37k · revenue 0%
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
Dubourg Home Dba Place Dubourg Apartments

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.

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2
The Methodist Hospital

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.

Health
3
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

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…

Health
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
Texas Baptist Children's Home Inc

Texas baptist children's home embraces children and families in need in order to empower and equip them for a promising future.

Human Services
6
Luke's House- a Clinic for Healing and Hope

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.

Health
7
Christus St Michael Foundation

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…

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8
Texas Baptist Children's Home and Family Services Inc

Provision and management of property on which a family of nonprofit ministries carries out programs and services for vulnerable children and families.

Human Services
9
Christopher Homes Inc

Management of affordable rental units for the elderly and handicapped - hud projects

Housing & Shelter
10
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Inc

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…

Health
11
Christus Northeast Texas and Northern Louisiana Health System Corporation

Coordinating parent of charitable healthcare system guiding activities of affiliated entities to provide quality healthcare services to the community.

Religion
12
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Methodist Hospital Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE: $1,562,965 · OtherLOUISIANA ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THETURNING POINT USA INC: $250,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCLOUISIANA CONFERENCE CENTER: $160,000 · OtherLOUISIANA CONFERENCE CENTER+12 more: $329,300 · Other+12 moreTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDAT…+2 more: $17,500 · HealthLOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $124,858 · Human ServicesYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $20,000 · Human ServicesROSS LYNN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesMacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $115,340 · EducationHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $80,600 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $41,500 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $37,000 · ReligionFRONT YARD BIKES: $12,500 · Public Benefit
Other$2,302,265Health$1,017,500Human Services$175,858Education$115,340Housing & Shelter$80,600Philanthropy$41,500Religion$37,000Public Benefit$12,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $124,858 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $115,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $80,600 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $41,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $37,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA of Northwest Louisiana: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRONT YARD BIKES: $12,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetROSS LYNN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetMacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChristus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDYSLEXIA ASSOC OF GREATER BATON ROUGE THE BRIGHTON SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Albemarle FoundationCommunity Foundation …Baton Rouge Area Foun…Community Foundation …The Greater New Orlea…Shell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Albemarle FoundationNC18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc?

    Find your warmest path to United Methodist Foundation of Louisiana Inc 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 28 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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