· Public charity
United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc
To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,121,988 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,875,464 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $753,476 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $554k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $561k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Abrahams Tent | $136,324 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of LC | $135,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA | $94,757 |
| Calcasieu Council on Aging | $72,442 |
| Beauregard Council on Aging | $62,488 |
| Family & Youth Counseling | $60,000 |
| Beauregard Community Concerns | $40,000 |
| Southwest Louisiana Youth Foundatio | $40,000 |
| Business Disaster and Recovery Mgmt | $36,371 |
| New Covenant Faith Community Develo | $36,000 |
| Salvation Army | $35,000 |
| United Against Homeless Outreach | $34,822 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $33,408 |
| Holy Ground Homeless Outreach | $25,000 |
| Literacy Council of SWLA | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 69% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against -41% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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
- ATABRAHAM'S TENT ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +4% · 45% of their budget
- FAFamily and Youth Counseling Agency Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +45%
- SNST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CHEST INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue -41%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $12k
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 improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…
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 Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless (CAAH) holds the fundamental belief that everyone, no matter how deprived in circumstances of housing and necessities is valued, entitled to dignity and respect, and deserving of community…
The Center for Children and Families, Inc. was organized for the advocacy of children in the court and foster care systems within the Fourth Judicial District of Louisiana, and to do any and all things germane, incidental and necessary to…
Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
Provide children representation before the judicial system
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
Arc of Greater New Orleans is committed to securing for all people with intellectual disabilities the opportunity to develop, function, and live to their fullest potential
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center is a New Orleans based non-profit law office established in 1993 as the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. The LCAC represents indigent individuals who are charged with capital crimes in Louisiana…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Helping Families of Swla La Inc and the most unlike its peers is Once Was Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 48 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 ABRAHAM'S TENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A SAFE HAVEN FOR SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds The Literacy Council of Southwest LA ↗
- Who funds BEAUREGARD COMMUNITY CONCERNS INC ↗
- Who funds Beauregard Council on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Beauregard Association for Retarded Citizens Inc ↗
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLIE GIRLS MENTORING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds JEFF DAVIS COMMUNITIES AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA LAW CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BUILD A FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds BeauCARE Inc ↗
- Who funds CALCASIEU COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds The Volunteer Center of Southwest Louisiana Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF LA-PINES TO THE GULF (FORMERLY BAYOU GIRL SCOUT COUNCILINC) ↗
- Who funds IBERIA COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ASSIST AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS AND WORKFORCE RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SWLA CENTER FOR HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Louisiana Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA PURCHASE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON DAVIS COUNCIL ON AGING I ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCES CABRINI IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
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 Southwest Louisiana · Cheniere Foundation · Louisiana Bar Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Sempra Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · CSE Community Foundation · The Scott Foundation · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Southwest Louisiana Inc 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.