· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CADDO CAREER & TECHNOLOGY CENTER | $12,546 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE | $6,357 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $198k · revenue +176%- GIGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC4× · 2017–2021 · $158k · revenue +36%
- NLNORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK5× · 2017–2021 · $96k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- DDDOLLAR DAYS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2019 · $23k
- YOYOUTH OUTREACH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -1%
- TPTHE PHILADELPHIA CENTERgraduatedone 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.
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.
Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults
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…
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
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.
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…
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…
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.
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 field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTH LA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST LOUISIANA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GINGERBREAD HOUSE BOSSIERCADDO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORWELA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 215 ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING HEALTH CENTER DBA MLK HEALTH CENTER & PHARMACY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS FOR YOUTH JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Project Reclaim of Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds CADDO COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds RENESTING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER ↗
- Who funds PLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATCHITOCHES PARISH COUNCIL ON AGIN ↗
- Who funds TRAINING EDUCATION AND MEDIATION FOR STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds CAREER COMPASS OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTREACH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SABINE COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds DESOTO COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE PROGRAM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEP FORWARD NLA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LSU IN SHREVEPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds David Raines Community Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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.
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.