· Public charity
United Way of St Charles
To lead and unite the community in providing a program of health and human services that is comprehensive, efficient, and effective.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $1,274,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,337,587 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $63,287 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 $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $420k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $528k
- $250k+1 grant · $304k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catholic Charities - All Programs | $304,000 |
| Creative Family Solutions | $212,500 |
| Second Harvest | $140,930 |
| A Safe Space of St Charles | $60,000 |
| ARC of St Charles | $59,125 |
| Child Advocacy Services | $55,000 |
| Matthew 2535 Food Pantry | $46,920 |
| Volunteers of America | $36,875 |
| Girl Scouts Louisiana East | $29,000 |
| St Charles Parish Public Defenders | $28,750 |
| St Charles Community CARE Foundation | $25,000 |
| Access Health Louisiana | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross | $22,000 |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services | $21,500 |
| Cancer Association of Greater New Orleans | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CFCENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +78% · 85% of their budget
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +21%
- TAThe ARC of St Charles Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $921k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SLSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA SPORT EDUCATION PROGRAMone grant, 2019 · $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.
To improve health status through access to information, education, & health services.
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Pregnancy counseling
Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.
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…
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
Family service counsels and strengthens individuals and families improving their quality of life
To alleviate hunger in central louisiana
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
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.
To provide medical care to the disadvantaged and underserved.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans and the most unlike its peers is Matthew 2535 Ministries. 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 32 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 38 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds The ARC of St Charles Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds RIVER REGION DRAMA GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds A SAFE SPACE OF ST CHARLES ↗
- Who funds Access Health Louisiana ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW ORLEANS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 2535 MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE FOR GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEAN ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES HOSPITAL AUXILIARY ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY ALLIANCE LOUISIANA frmly EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds ST CHARLES COMMUNITY CARE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GERMAN COAST FARMERS MARKET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DAT DADS' CLUB OF LULING ↗
- Who funds VIA LINK INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · St John United Way · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Northshore Community Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Ochsner Clinic Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · J B Levert Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries
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 St Charles 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.