How much does United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc give?

United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc reported 24 itemized grants totaling $1,131,287, out of $1,353,619 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Youth Development (21%), Food & Nutrition (17%).

Who are United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc ($1.8M), The Arc of Ouachita ($931k), Ouachita Council on Aging Inc ($821k).

Does United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Living Well Foundation, Community Foundation of North Louisiana, Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation.

Where is United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc based?

United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc is based in LA.

United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc

United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc

To help people and improve communities - the united way is focused on creating lasting change in community conditions to improve the lives of people through community initiatives.

$1.4M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$171k

Largest

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.

Human Services$4.3MYouth Development$2.6MFood & Nutrition$2.1MHealth$827kCrime & Legal$667kRecreation & Sports$565kEmployment$480kPublic Safety & Disaster$309kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 24 grants below total $1,131,287, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,353,619 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $222,332 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 · $7k
$10k–50k14 grants · $354k
$50k–250k9 grants · $771k

$42,224

Median grant

States reached

$4.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE WELLSPRING	$171,281
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHEAST LA	$143,160
DART	$85,000
OUACHITA COUNCIL ON AGING	$65,525
LA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENFAMILY SVCS	$65,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA	$63,490
MED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA	$61,760
WEST OUACHITA SENIOR CENTER	$60,000
BOY SCOUTS LOUISIANA PURCHASE	$55,500
OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIAL CENTER	$49,000
CHRISTOPHER YOUTH CENTER	$45,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY	$42,224
ARCO	$36,553
CATHOLIC CHARITIES	$27,000
LINCOLN COUNCIL ON AGING	$25,154

02The need

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, $4.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, 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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 30 repeat orgs$219k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+57%

Still filing today

83%

91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

TW
THE WELLSPRING ALLIANCE FOR FAMILIES INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +68%
OC
OUACHITA COUNCIL ON AGING INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $821k · revenue +8%
FB
FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $751k · revenue +161%

Funded once

RC
RENEWAL CENTER OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC
one grant, 2018 · $46k · revenue -13%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTH LOUISIANA INC
one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue -31%
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +106%

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.

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

Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants

International

Catahoula Council On Aging Inc

Non-profit services to the elderly of catahoula parish, la

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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

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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Nami Ruston Louisiana

Human Services

Louisiana Alpha House Scholarship Foundation

Philanthropy

Families Helping Families of Northeast La Inc

Provide community and family support and parent training for families with family members with special needs in Region 8 in Louisiana.

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Gulf Coast Teaching Family Servicesinc D/B/a Gulf Coast Social Services

To empower adults and children living in louisiana who have mental, physical, behavioral, and other challenges to improve the quality of their lives and to live as independently as possible in their communities by facilitating personal…

—

Orleans County Child Advocacy Center Inc

Health

Northlake Homeless Coalition

The northlake homelesss coalition is a network of private and public service providers working together to end the ravages of homelessness in the southeastern louisiana parishes of livingston, st helena, st tammany, tangipahoa and…

Education

Westbank Arc Inc

The organiziation's primary purpose is to provide supportive employment and day habilitation services to intellectually disabled citizens of the Westbank located in Jefferson Parish Louisiana.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Coalition for Northeast Louisiana; the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Health 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

38 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. 38 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/38

Grantees still filing

27/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$5,504,398Other$3,774,512Youth Development$1,182,874Health$817,350Recreation & Sports$549,560Crime & Legal$278,060Food & Nutrition$192,470

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.

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.

Living Well FoundationLA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Living Well Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Scott Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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