How much does United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc give?

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc reported 30 itemized grants totaling $1,121,988, out of $1,875,464 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (19%), Youth Development (15%).

Who are United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Abraham's Tent Association ($1.2M), Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc ($1.0M), St Nicholas Center for Children ($883k).

Does United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana, Cheniere Foundation, Louisiana Bar Foundation.

Where is United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc based?

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc is based in LA.

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health.

$1.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$136k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$3.8MHealth$2.4MYouth Development$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.5MEducation$837kHousing & Shelter$745kPhilanthropy$584kCrime & Legal$240kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 30 grants below total $1,121,988, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,875,464 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $753,476 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 · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k23 grants · $554k
$50k–250k6 grants · $561k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Girlie Girls Mentoring Program	$25,000
Holy Ground Homeless Outreach	$25,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$12M · 41 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -41% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$12M

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

-41%

Still filing today

83%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

AT
ABRAHAM'S TENT ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +4% · 45% of their budget
FA
Family and Youth Counseling Agency Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +45%
SN
ST NICHOLAS CENTER FOR CHILDREN
8× · 2017–2024 · $883k · revenue +13%

Funded once

CC
COMMUNITY CHEST INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue -41%
VO
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC
one grant, 2022 · $12k

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.

Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

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

Human Services

Southwest Louisiana Area Health Education Center Foundation

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

Health

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

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,…

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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

Capital Area Alliance for the Homeless

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…

Community Improvement

Southern Center for Children & Families Inc

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…

Civil Rights

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

Casa of West CenLA Inc

Provide children representation before the judicial system

Crime & Legal

Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

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

Religion

The Arc of Greater New Orleans

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

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Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

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Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center

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…

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Helping Families of Swla La Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/44

Grantees still filing

28/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$6,611,963Human Services$3,195,838Health$1,168,601Education$819,985Philanthropy$598,318Youth Development$302,246Crime & Legal$239,615

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 of Southwest LouisianaLA48.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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