· Public charity
United Way of Acadiana Inc
United way of acadiana's mission is to unite people and organizations with passion, expertise and resources to create more opportunities for a better life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $334,619 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $398,682 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,063 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $56,889 |
| CHEZ HOPE | $48,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIE OF ACADIANA | $33,212 |
| VITA | $32,590 |
| NEHEMIA PROJECTS OF ACADIANA | $32,435 |
| FIGHTINGVILLE FRESH MARKET | $27,827 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $18,181 |
| FAITH HOUSE | $17,865 |
| 232-HELP CONTRACT | $17,801 |
| EARTHSHARE GARDENS | $17,550 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,093 |
| HEARTS OF HOPE | $10,257 |
| LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING | $9,919 |
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 (FY17–25, $424k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 0% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 2 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- 2I232-HELP INC5× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +56%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +46%
- LALOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $392k · revenue +246% · 33% of their budget
Funded once
- IAI AM A LEADER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -99%
- ASACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +4%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTEone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
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Fund raising and agency allocations
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Southwest Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Merle F and Herbert L Hanna Founda. 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 55 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 67 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 232-HELP INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Faith House Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds HEARTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER INSTRUCTORS TEACHING ADULTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds EVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds Acadiana Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Iberia Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CHEZ HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MERLE F AND HERBERT L HANNA FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds NEHEMIAH PROJECTS OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds FOODNET OF LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ACADIA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Acadiana · AT&T Foundation · Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Inc · Pinhook Foundation Inc · Haynie Family Foundation · Mills Family Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · Foundation for Wellness Fna Womans Foundation Inc · The Rucks Family Foundation · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Martial F Billeaud Sr 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 Way of Acadiana 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.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way Miami Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
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.