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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.

$399k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$57k
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 2025.

Philanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$1.5MYouth Development$705kReligion$551kEducation$480kPublic Safety & Disaster$446kFood & Nutrition$431kHealth$308kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $334,619, the rows itemized in this filing. The $398,682 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,063 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 $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$18,181
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEHEMIA PROJECTS OF ACADIANA: $32k → 21%CHEZ HOPE: $48k → 25%EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY: $11k → 25%ESCAPE FROM POVERTY: $15k → 17%NEHEMIA PROJECTS OF ACADIANA: $12k → 21%EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY: $10k → 25%ESCAPE FROM POVERTY: $15k → 17%EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY: $8k → 25%ESCAPE FROM POVERTY: $5k → 17%EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY: $7k → 25%EMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY: $7k → 25%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $11k → 17%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 17%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $8k → 17%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $8k → 17%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 17%LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $15k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $10k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $8k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $7k → 17%HOSPICE OF ACADIANA: $6k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $58k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $42k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

UT
AR
TN
SC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 55 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
9

Total granted

$6.6M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-16%

Still filing today

85%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • 2I
    232-HELP INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +56%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2025 · $446k · revenue +46%
  • LA
    LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $392k · revenue +246% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • IA
    I AM A LEADER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $19k · revenue -99%
  • AS
    ACADIANA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue +4%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
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
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

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2
Together Louisiana

Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…

Public Benefit
3
Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

The Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…

Community Improvement
4
Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition
5
Women of Wisdom of Avadiana Inc

Volunteer

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6
Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
8
Acadiana Concern for Aids Relief Education and Support Inc

Provides education and services to halt the spread of hiv in the region and end the prejudice and discrimination surrounding hiv/aids.

Health
9
Feeding Louisiana

The mission of the association shall be to promote communication and interaction among members and to provide education and training programs on issues of hunger and food banking.

Food & Nutrition
10
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

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

Human Services
11
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.

Philanthropy
12
Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northwest Arkansas Inc; the most unlike its peers is I Am a Leader Foundation. 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

59 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. 59 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
29/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC: $392,145 · PhilanthropyLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS I…UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $387,869 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INCUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $330,477 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANAUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $140,704 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INCUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $134,183 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY MIAMI INCUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $109,708 · PhilanthropyCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $106,056 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $87,334 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Houston: $79,835 · Philanthropy+13 more: $576,831 · Philanthropy+13 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA INC: $550,663 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ACADIANA INCBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF ACADIANA: $277,191 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF AC…ST MARTIN PARISH ACCESS TO CA: $237,654 · OtherST MARTIN PARISH ACCESS TO CALafayette Parish School System: $235,452 · OtherLafayette Parish School SystemVOLUNTEER INSTRUCTORS TEACHING ADULTS INC: $107,319 · OtherEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $97,618 · Other16TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT ATTY: $87,112 · OtherUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc: $84,939 · OtherAcadiana Outreach Center Inc: $71,818 · Other+17 more: $342,127 · Other+17 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $445,533 · Human ServicesAmerican National R…Faith House Inc: $305,774 · Human ServicesFaith House IncTHE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN: $123,703 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY TREE INF…LAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50,314 · Human ServicesCHEZ HOPE INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $46,111 · Human ServicesNEHEMIAH PROJECTS OF ACADIANA INC: $44,707 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE: $42,842 · Human ServicesACADIA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $40,667 · Human Services+2 more: $42,748 · Human Services232-HELP INC: $474,001 · EducationTHE MERLE F AND HERBERT L HANNA FOUNDA: $47,395 · EducationNEW HOPE LAFAYETTE: $25,780 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $324,900 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,063 · Youth DevelopmentSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $239,270 · Food & NutritionEARTH SHARE GARDENS: $17,550 · Food & NutritionHEARTS OF HOPE: $143,560 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$2,345,142Other$2,091,893Human Services$1,190,399Education$547,176Youth Development$329,963Food & Nutrition$256,820Crime & Legal$143,560

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 budget232-HELP INC: $474,001 over 5y, 23% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $445,533 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC: $392,145 over 4y, 33% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $387,869 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA: $330,477 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $324,900 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetFaith House Inc: $305,774 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF ACADIANA: $277,191 over 9y, 11% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $239,270 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS OF HOPE: $143,560 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $140,704 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $134,183 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INFORMATION EDUCATION AND COUNSELING CENTER IN: $123,703 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $109,708 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER INSTRUCTORS TEACHING ADULTS INC: $107,319 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY: $106,056 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEVANGELINE AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $97,618 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY SUNCOAST INC: $87,334 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc: $84,939 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $79,835 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe United Way of Lee County Inc: $72,376 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAcadiana Outreach Center Inc: $71,818 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC: $69,925 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF ARKANSAS UNITED WAY: $66,786 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $66,090 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $60,933 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS: $58,336 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $50,314 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHEZ HOPE INC: $48,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MERLE F AND HERBERT L HANNA FOUNDA: $47,395 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF ACADIANA INC: $46,111 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEHEMIAH PROJECTS OF ACADIANA INC: $44,707 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetEMPOWERING THE COMMUNITY FOR EXCELLENCE: $42,842 over 5y, 14% of budgetFOODNET OF LAFAYETTE LOUISIANA: $40,923 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetACADIA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $40,667 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHEART OF FLORIDA UNITED WAY INC: $40,317 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of the Florida Keys Inc: $36,875 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS INC: $35,807 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetESCAPE FROM POVERTY: $35,248 over 3y, 24% of budgetUnited Way of Madison County Inc: $29,372 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASSIST AGENCY INC: $24,675 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $23,935 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $23,504 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA INC: $22,573 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetI AM A LEADER FOUNDATION: $19,250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID SOUTH: $18,811 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY INC: $13,407 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $12,001 over 2y, 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 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …AT&T FoundationOur Lady of Lourdes R…Pinhook Foundation IncHaynie Family Foundat…Mills Family Foundati…United Way WorldwideFoundation for Wellne…The Rucks Family Foun…Florence Mauboules Ch…Second Harvest Food B…Martial F Billeaud Sr…
Community Foundation of AcadianaLA47.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 67 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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