· Public charity
United Way of Lamar County
The mission of the UNITED WAY OF LAMAR COUNTY is to effectively generate, organize, and distribute resources to help meet our communities' evolving human needs focusing on the areas of education,income and health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $493,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $762,272 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,926 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED RIVER VALL | $84,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $66,370 |
| RRV DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $59,675 |
| LAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $46,035 |
| THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $43,509 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $36,507 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $30,500 |
| LAMAR COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD | $26,009 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $21,000 |
| PARIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,007 |
| PARIS COMMUNITY THEATRE | $13,009 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| LAMAR COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,209 |
| PARIS KIWANIS IMAGINATION LIBRARY | $10,009 |
| KEEP PARIS BEAUTIFUL | $8,007 |
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 (FY19–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +10% since the first grant, against -93% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- BGBoys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y6× · 2019–2024 · $445k · revenue +27%
- KDKING'S DAUGHTERS AND KING'S SONS - FIRST CIRCLE6× · 2019–2024 · $268k · revenue +4%
- LCLAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $214k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- O5OTHERS 5000 OR LESSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- OLOTHERS LESS THAN 5000one grant, 2019 · $9k
- DDDYLANS DRIVERSone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -93%
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.
To provide counseling, legal advocacy, and shelter needs to victims of domestic violence in the parishes of lincoln, bienville, union, claiborne, jackson, grant, and winn.
The prevention of suffering, neglect, abuse and cruelty to animals and the extension of humane education through spay and neuter programs and educational platforms.
Benevolence to community families
Paris Community Theatre is dedicated to producing high-quality entertainment that engages, inspires, educates, and transforms. Through the arts, we provide cultural enrichment, creative development, and opportunities for self-discovery. We…
Advocacy and care of physically and sexually abused children in lasalle county. we work with the court system in determining the best placement for children.
To provide services designed to meet the physical, social, and emotional needs of domestic violence and sexual assault victims by providing for immediate, short, and long-term needs.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide services for the protection of abused and neglected children that are in the custody of the State of Texas.
To provide assistance to women with crisis pregnancies. the centers are committed to provide their clients with accurate and complete information about both prenatal development and abortion.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Center Inc Dba Childrens Advocacy Center of Paris and the most unlike its peers is Dylans Drivers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 Boys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y ↗
- Who funds KING'S DAUGHTERS AND KING'S SONS - FIRST CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds LAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAMAR COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE CENTER OF PARIS ↗
- Who funds ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS CENTER INC DBA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF PARIS ↗
- Who funds SHELTER AGENCIES FOR FAMILIES IN EAST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PARISLAMAR COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PARIS CHRISTIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PARIS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DYLANS DRIVERS ↗
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: Ram Foundation · St Joseph's Community Foundation · The Roy and Skeeter Davis Family Foundation · 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 Way of Lamar County 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.