How much did UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA grant in FY2024?

Human Services$8.8MEducation$4.6MPhilanthropy$2.1MCrime & Legal$1.9MHealth$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.4MArts & Culture$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.1MYouth Development$986kOther$13M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

millercodeduchenne muscularinternationallyrecognizedexclusivelytax

2020

collier keysexclusivelytaxsectioncodewar museumcorporate shareholder

2021

knowledgecollier keysexpandkeys uwckrootfairuniting create

2022

baptist churchbackentrepreneurialphysical mentalafterlackloop nola

2023

electric girlsyoung emergingemerging artistsjobslibraryexceptionalmuhsen

2024

thriving africanafrican smallsmall buisnessvozstrivepaycheckevidence-based

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 114 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $172k
$10k–50k50 grants · $1.5M
$50k–250k39 grants · $3.3M
$250k+2 grants · $569k

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

$27M

Total assets

Largest grants

HEROES OF NEW ORLEANS$300,000
CHILDREN'S BUREAU OF NEW ORLEANS$269,092
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$227,751
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS$222,388
YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT$166,530
SILENCE IS VIOLENCE$125,000
NORTHLAKE HOMELESS$120,860
COMMUNITY CENTER OF ST BERNARD$115,425
NEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$106,510
CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS$105,951
UBUNTU VILLAGE$103,181
HANDS ON NEW ORLEANS$102,750
UNITED WAY FOR SOUTH LOUISIANA$96,698
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$87,615
NEW ORLEANS YOUTH ALLIANCE$85,450

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$33M · 161 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.

161 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161

Total granted

$33M

$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+37%

Still filing today

88%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

SH
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
7× · 2018–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +28%
VL
VIA LINK
5× · 2018–2022 · $790k · revenue +227%
UL
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS
7× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +76%

Funded once

WF
WATER FOR PEOPLEgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $400k · revenue +67%
SB
ST BERNARD PROJECT
one grant, 2018 · $249k
GO
GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE
one grant, 2020 · $200k

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.

New Orleans Culinary &

To create world-class culinary and hospitality facilities, programs, and research that drive workforce and economic development for the new orleans region.

Unclassified

University of New Orleans Research and

To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.

Health

Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans

Propeller grows and supports entrepreneurs to tackle social and environmental disparities.

Human Services

Future Athletes of Louisiana

Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…

Recreation & Sports

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.

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Lede New Orleans Inc

A nonprofit news initiative that brings together young adults, journalists, and artists to produce equitable, community-driven media in new orleans louisiana.

Education

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit

For Providers by Providers Louisiana

Provides quality training for early education providers

Education

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts

Nocca foundation champions the new orleans center for creative arts. we build philanthropic, lasting partnerships. we invest in young artists, their mentors and the community through programs that encourage educational and cultural…

Arts & Culture

Northwest Louisiana Food Bank

Nw la food bank's mission is to be the primary resource for fighting hunger in northwest louisiana.

Food & Nutrition

University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hands On New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is Pontchartrain Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%6/275

the rest of the field

16%

1,444/8,939

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

227 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

213/227

Grantees still filing

168/227

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,125,928Human Services$8,832,334Education$4,642,311Philanthropy$2,126,474Crime & Legal$1,937,292Health$1,742,458Food & Nutrition$1,389,422

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA196.4× affinity152 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · The Gpoa Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Foundation for Louisiana · Forekids Foundations Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New

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 organisation UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NEW HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311542975 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NEW HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Southeast Louisiana?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Southeast Louisiana through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

227 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southeast Louisiana?

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UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

227 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Southeast Louisiana?

More from the funding graph