· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED RIVER VALL | $77,520 |
| RRV DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $60,250 |
| LAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY | $53,867 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $52,915 |
| THE KING'S DAUGHTERS | $44,504 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $27,100 |
| LAMAR COUNTY CHILD WELFARE BOARD | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $22,008 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $20,504 |
| PARIS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,068 |
| PARIS COMMUNITY THEATRE | $19,020 |
| AARON PARKER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM | $13,725 |
| UNDER 5000 AND ACCRUAL DIFFERENCE | $11,008 |
| LAMAR COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL | $10,258 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,008 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $266k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -93% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBoys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y7× · 2019–2025 · $522k · revenue +27%
- KDKING'S DAUGHTERS AND KING'S SONS - FIRST CIRCLE7× · 2019–2025 · $313k · revenue +76%
- LCLAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $268k · 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%
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.
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.
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.
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.
The prevention of suffering, neglect, abuse and cruelty to animals and the extension of humane education through spay and neuter programs and educational platforms.
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.
Delta Childrens Advocacy Centers mission is to respond to child abuse in the Mississippi Delta by serving and nurturing children and non-offending caregivers through a trauma-informed multidisciplinary approach.
Interview facility for child abuse victims.
to reach functional zero homelessness in Hays County through outreach case management direct aid and emergency response while maintaining the dignity of the people we serve
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ARK-TEX COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ram Foundation · St Joseph's Community Foundation · The Roy and Skeeter Davis Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Lamar County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lamar County. Bigger dots raise more.
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