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United Way for South Louisiana

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$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.9MHealth$1.8MYouth Development$284kReligion$226kFood & Nutrition$204kPhilanthropy$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$13k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $383k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$24,944
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Haven$55,000
St Vincent de Paul Tri-Parish Community Pharmacy$50,000
Chez Hope Inc$40,992
Arc of Assumption$40,071
Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc$40,000
St Jude Children's Hospital$38,837
St Mary Council on Aging$37,306
Emergency Aid Center$36,000
Bayou Council Behavioral Health Services$25,000
St Mary Outreach$24,944
United Way of Southeast Louisiana$24,352
The Salvation Army$19,991
Donaldsonville Arc$19,568
CAGNO$13,033
Thibodaux Regional Auxiliary (Medical)$11,935
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $585k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%Donaldsonville Arc: $20k → 10%Emergency Aid Center: $64k → 25%Donaldsonville Arc: $13k → 10%Donaldsonville Arc: $10k → 10%Emergency Aid Center: $45k → 25%Donaldsonville Arc: $7k → 10%Emergency Aid Center: $37k → 25%Emergency Aid Center: $37k → 25%Emergency Aid Center: $36k → 25%Emergency Aid Center: $32k → 25%Emergency Aid Center: $30k → 25%Emergency Aid Center: $29k → 25%St Mary Outreach: $35k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $32k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $32k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $31k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $27k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $26k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $25k → 18%St Mary Outreach: $18k → 18%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 23 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -98% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
1

Total granted

$4.5M
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-98%

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AA
    ASSUMPTION ASSOCIATION OF RETARDED CITIZENS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $395k · revenue +21%
  • TH
    The Haven Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +267%
  • SM
    ST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • LC
    Leonard Chabert Medical Center Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -98%
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
Union Council on Aging Inc

The primary function of the Union Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving aging…

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2
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.

Human Services
3
Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center Inc

BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.

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4
Tensas Council on Aging Inc

The primary function of the Tensas Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving the…

Human Services
5
Bayou La Batre Area Health Development Board Inc

Rendering health care services in rural areas, mainly to indigent care patients

Health
6
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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7
Protect Louisiana Values

Promote family values in louisiana

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8
The Assist Agency Inc

The agency provides services to low income, handicapped and homeless individuals in the form of emergency food and shelther, food distribution, low income housing assistance, energy assistance and other related social and emergency…

Employment
9
East Carroll Council on Aging

The primary function of the East Carroll Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies…

Human Services
10
Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health
11
Jackson Council on the Aging Inc

The primary function of the Jackson Council on the Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving…

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12
Primary Health Services Center Inc

To provide quality, comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally appropriate primary and preventive healthcare services to residents in medically underserved North Louisiana.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Louisiana Council Boy Scouts of America; the most unlike its peers is Pierre Part-Belle River Fire Department. 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

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX: $452,484 · OtherTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA…ASSUMPTION ASSOCIATION OF RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $394,871 · OtherASSUMPTION ASSOCIATION OF RETARDED CITIZENS INCST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $312,409 · OtherST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INCASSUMPTION PARISH COUNCIL ON THE AGING: $232,170 · OtherASSUMPTION PARISH COUNCIL ON THE AGINGTHE SALVATION ARMY: $200,605 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,664 · OtherSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICATHIBODAUX REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER AUXILIARY: $104,958 · OtherEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $83,387 · Other+4 more: $91,765 · OtherSt Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy: $399,039 · HealthSt Vincent de Paul TriParish Comm…The Haven Inc: $380,270 · HealthThe Haven IncBayou Council Behavioral Health Services Inc: $294,910 · HealthBayou Council Behavioral Health S…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $120,168 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPI…CANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN: $84,542 · HealthCANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW…+1 more: $42,998 · HealthEMERGENCY AID CENTER INC: $309,788 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY AID CENTER I…CHEZ HOPE INC: $296,344 · Human ServicesCHEZ HOPE INCSt Mary Outreach Inc: $225,612 · Human ServicesSt Mary Outreach IncDONALDSONVILLE AREA ARC INC: $49,826 · Human ServicesDONALDSONVILLE AREA AR…Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc: $204,458 · Food & NutritionUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $65,054 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $5,502 · PhilanthropyGIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC): $49,649 · Youth DevelopmentPIERRE PART-BELLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,753 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,998,313Health$1,321,927Human Services$881,570Food & Nutrition$204,458Philanthropy$70,556Youth Development$49,649Public Safety & Disaster$7,753

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 budgetSt Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy: $399,039 over 8y, 16% of budgetASSUMPTION ASSOCIATION OF RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $394,871 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetThe Haven Inc: $380,270 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $312,409 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetEMERGENCY AID CENTER INC: $309,788 over 8y, 69% of budgetCHEZ HOPE INC: $296,344 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBayou Council Behavioral Health Services Inc: $294,910 over 8y, 23% of budgetSt Mary Outreach Inc: $225,612 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetTerrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc: $204,458 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $125,664 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $120,168 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN: $84,542 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $83,387 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $65,054 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDONALDSONVILLE AREA ARC INC: $49,826 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC): $49,649 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $42,998 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc: $25,755 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLeonard Chabert Medical Center Foundation: $7,837 over 1y, 12% of budgetPIERRE PART-BELLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $7,753 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $5,502 over 1y, 0.0% 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 St Vincent de Paul TriParish Community Pharmacy ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION ASSOCIATION OF RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Haven Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGENCY AID CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEZ HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bayou Council Behavioral Health Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Mary Outreach Inc ↗
  • Who funds Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN ↗
  • Who funds EVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds DONALDSONVILLE AREA ARC INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) ↗
  • Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc ↗
  • Who funds Leonard Chabert Medical Center Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PIERRE PART-BELLE RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Shell USA Company Fou…The Greater New Orlea…Capital Area United W…Community Foundation …Baton Rouge Area Foun…Bayou Community Found…Catholic Foundation o…Albemarle FoundationAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX20.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Bayou Community Foundation · Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana · Albemarle Foundation · 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 Way for South Louisiana funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way for South Louisiana. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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