Louisiana · Nonprofit
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,076,646 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($674,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's revenue grew 87% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Christus Health Northern Louisianashared fundersportfolio match
- United Way of Northwest Louisianashared fundersportfolio match
- Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Incshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 12% · 2021 15% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $175k → $88k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.1M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Rapides Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 87% · 2021 100% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
63% of CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $402k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from funders outside Louisiana, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $675k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Christus Health Northern Louisianashared fundersportfolio matchLA · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Northwest Louisianashared fundersportfolio matchLA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Our Lady of the Lake Hospital Incshared fundersportfolio matchLA · backs 15 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greater New Orleans Development Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nelson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Powers Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alta and John Franks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ochsner Clinic Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- US Chamber of Commerce Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christus Health Southwestern Louisianashared fundersLA · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Methodist Health System Foundation Incshared fundersLA · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$1.8M
- Department of Commerce$400k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,076,646 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($674,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,076,646 in grants to CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $674,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing