Louisiana · Nonprofit
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE
CENTRAL LOUISIANA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE (Louisiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,134,307 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($674,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Central Louisiana Economic Development Alliance does
Mission
The mission of cleda is to advance the knowledge and understanding of economics and to develop economic planning and development that would bring about improved efficiency, development and accelaration of both the quality and quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$1,655,579 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,655,579.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+33%).
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 (69% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Blake Chatelain
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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) — 59% 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 59% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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
59% 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 $460k that is directly attributable, 55% 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 state is 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.
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
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
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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 $1,134,307 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($674,500). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% 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 $1,134,307 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.
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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 6 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing