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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $18,903, the rows itemized in this filing. The $62,597 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,694 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 · 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

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 (FY17–23, $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 its 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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of United Way of Northwest Louisiana’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 78%.

United Way of Northwest Louisianalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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.

1
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

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

Human Services
2
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
3
Louisiana Disabled Persons Housing Corp

Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults

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4
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

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

Philanthropy
5
Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

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

Health
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
The Arc of Louisiana

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

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9
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

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

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10
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
11
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
12
Center for Family and Youth Services

Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sabine Council On Aging Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 69 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…HOPE CONNECTIONS INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesHOPE CONNECTION…RENESTING PROJECT INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesRENESTING PROJE…PLANT A SEED IN OUR YOUTH FOUNDATION: $22,500 · Human ServicesPLANT A SEED IN…THE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $22,500 · Human ServicesTHE ARC CADDO-B…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…LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION ON COMPULSIVE GAMBLING: $10,000 · HealthDavid Raines Community Health Center Inc: $10,000 · HealthST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $7,500 · HealthBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHOPE CONNECTIONS INC: $23,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRENESTING PROJECT INC: $23,000 over 2y, 5.1% 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 budgetTHE ARC CADDO-BOSSIER: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS AT CENTENARY: $10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetLOUISIANA ASSOCIATION ON COMPULSIVE GAMBLING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT CELEBRATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWebster Voluntary Council on Aging Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSHREVEPORT BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDavid Raines Community Health Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLAIBORNE VOLUNTARY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHWEST LA COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $8,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetST LUKES EPISCOPAL MOBILE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% 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 budgetCentral Louisiana Interfaith: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budget
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.

Community Foundation …Carolyn W & Charles T…Grayson Foundation IncAmerican Electric Pow…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Christus HealthWillis-Knighton Medic…The Crow FoundationThe Powers Foundation…Cadence Bank Foundati…Wheless FoundationThe Nelson Foundation
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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