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United Way of Northwest Louisiana

UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA fights for the health, education, financial stability, and essential needs of every person in our community.

$63k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$449kEmployment$206kYouth Development$184kFood & Nutrition$184kHuman Services$173kHealth$166kHousing & Shelter$152kCrime & Legal$102kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $18,903 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $62,597 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,694 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$12,546
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CADDO CAREER & TECHNOLOGY CENTER$12,546
CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE$6,357
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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.

area typical 12%RENESTING PROJECT INC: $15k → 13%DESOTO COUNCIL ON AGING: $8k → 20%PROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $10k → 26%CLAIBORNE VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 29%PLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $13k → 13%DESOTO COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 20%SABINE COUNCIL ON AGING: $10k → 26%CLAIBORNE VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 29%PLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%SABINE COUNCIL ON AGING: $5k → 26%RENESTING PROJECT INC: $8k → 13%BOSSIER COUNCIL ON AGING: $7k → 13%EVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRIES: $6k → 13%YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (YEP): $6k → 22%YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (YEP): $5k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $13k → 22%THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $13k → 22%THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $10k → 22%YWCA OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC: $6k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING: $6k → 22%YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES: $15k → 22%CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $5k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 22%CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE: $7k → 22%CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE: $6k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of United Way of Northwest Louisiana’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

United Way of Northwest Louisianalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 35 repeat orgs$283k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
34

Total granted

$1.4M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+5%

Still filing today

86%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $198k · revenue +176%
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $158k · revenue +36%
  • NL
    NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2017–2021 · $96k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • DD
    DOLLAR DAYS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2019 · $23k
  • YO
    YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • TP
    THE PHILADELPHIA CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +116%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

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

Human Services
2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
3
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
4
Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.

Health
5
Louisiana Disabled Persons Housing Corp

Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults

6
The Literacy Council of Southwest La

The Literacy Council of Southwest LA is a community-based, non-profit organization that provides instructional programs to improve educational skill levels in Southwest Louisiana and works to increase public awareness of literacy related…

Education
7
Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.

Religion
8
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

9
The Arc of Louisiana

The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

10
Southwest Louisiana Aids Council

To provide education to the people of southwest louisiana about hiv/aids, hiv prevention, and to offer medical and social services to people living with hiv.

Health
11
Southwest Louisiana Law Centerinc

The dual mission of southwest louisiana law center is to provide first rate legal services to the unemployed and economically disadvantaged residents of southwest louisiana and to utilize the organization's legal capabilities for the…

Crime & Legal
12
Central City Economic Opportunity Corporation

Promote and develop economic opportunity to those in need of increased ecomonic opportunity; to promote the education and welfare of the people of the community; and to form special interest groups as it deems necessary to solve special…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodwill Industries of North La Inc and the most unlike its peers is Youth Outreach Services. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLouisiana Music & Arts Orga…Affordable Housing Developm…Youth Development & Recreat…Louisiana Community Foundat…Hud-Subsidized Senior Housi…Faith-Based Outreach Minist…Louisiana Community Foundat…College-Prep Public Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%4%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr10%26%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr10%29%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/69
the rest of the field
18%
874/4,906

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.

05the grantee network

57 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $198,109 · OtherTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATIONVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC — $95,659 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCNORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215 — $55,000 · OtherNORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215CADDO PARISH SCHOOL BOARD — $43,484 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA — $38,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA — $38,125 · OtherVOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE — $35,280 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION & EMPOWERMENT INC — $30,000 · Other+27 more — $305,744 · Other+27 moreCADDO COUNCIL ON AGING — $23,770 · Human ServicesCADDO COUNCIL O…RENESTING PROJECT INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesRENESTING PROJE…HOPE CONNECTIONS INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesHOPE CONNECTION…THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER — $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE ARC CADDO-B…PLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION — $22,500 · Human ServicesPLANT A SEED IN…YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES — $15,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OUTREACH …SABINE COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesSABINE COUNCIL …DESOTO COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesDESOTO COUNCIL …CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE — $12,920 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM — $11,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT CELEBRATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCLAIBORNE VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $19,000 · Human Services+3 moreGINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $56,326 · HealthGINGERBREAD H…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $46,966 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY — $37,500 · HealthMARTIN LUTHER…HEART OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $15,650 · HealthHEART OF HOPE…David Raines Community Health Center Inc — $10,000 · HealthLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION ON COMPULSIVE GAMBLING — $10,000 · HealthBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA — $7,500 · HealthST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $7,500 · HealthGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC — $157,800 · EmploymentGOODWILL I…NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK — $96,206 · Food & NutritionJOE LEBLANC FOOD PANTRY — $7,500 · Food & NutritionPROVIDENCE HOUSE — $73,853 · Community ImprovementFAMILY LIFE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCOHABITAT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementProject Reclaim of Louisiana Inc — $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $5,037 · Youth DevelopmentBERNSTEIN DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$839,901Human Services$232,190Health$191,442Employment$157,800Food & Nutrition$103,706Community Improvement$83,853Youth Development$58,037

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION — $198,109 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC — $157,800 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK — $96,206 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE — $73,853 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $56,326 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetNORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215 — $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $46,966 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA — $38,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA — $38,125 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY — $37,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE — $35,280 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCADDO COUNCIL ON AGING — $23,770 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRENESTING PROJECT INC — $23,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHOPE CONNECTIONS INC — $23,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetNATCHITOCHES PARISH COUNCIL ON AGIN — $22,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTRAINING EDUCATION AND MEDIATION FOR STUDENTS — $22,500 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA — $21,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $15,650 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSABINE COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDESOTO COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE — $12,920 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA CENTER — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTEP FORWARD NLA — $12,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC — $11,283 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM — $11,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDavid Raines Community Health Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPROJECT CELEBRATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION ON COMPULSIVE GAMBLING — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS AT CENTENARY — $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCLAIBORNE VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWebster Voluntary Council on Aging Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHWEST LA COMMUNITY DEV CORP — $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetShreveport Bossier Rescue Mission — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSSIER COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMON GROUND COMMUNITY INC — $6,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetEVERGREEN PRESBYTERIAN MINISTRIES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $5,037 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOHABITAT FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation of North LouisianaLA88.8× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Carolyn W & Charles T Beaird Family Foundation · Grayson Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Christus Health · Willis-Knighton Medical Center · The Crow Foundation · The Powers Foundation Inc · Cadence Bank Foundation · Wheless Foundation · The Nelson 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 Northwest Louisiana 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $34k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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