Louisiana · Nonprofit
LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,133,470 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ($414,674). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $46M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $84M
What Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc does
Mission
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. The organization patterns its ministry by following the example of jesus christ who ministers to all in order that each may experience the wholeness which accompanies the reconciling love of god.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Lumcfs operates three methodist children's homes which are strategically located in the bootstrap, heel and toe of louisiana's boot-shaped geography. Louisiana methodist children's home (lmch) in ruston, louisiana provides care for up to 96 boys and girls from across the state whose behavioral needs require comprehensive, intensive residential treatment. Methodist children's home of southwest louisiana is a 28-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility. Methodist children's home of southeast louisiana is a 32-bed psychiatric residential treatment facility for children who require intensive residential care.our three methodist children's homes are internationally accredited by the council on accreditation and are licensed by louisiana department of health as psychiatric residential treatment facilities. We provide the most intensive, comprehensive and holistic residential care available to louisiana's children. Lumcfs receive requests for care from throughout la from parents, managed care organizations, insurance companies, custodial state agencies including the department of children and family services, the office of juvenile justice, and the la department of health,clergy…
$27,600,663 spent$34,591,993 earned by the program69% of program spendingMethodist foster care is louisiana's largest provider of therapeutic foster care services to children in the custody of the department of children and family services (dcfs). Therapeutic foster care is a family-based service which allows children to live in a foster home with specially trained parents while receiving intensive treatment from community-based providers of mental health services for their emotional and behavioral needs. Methodist foster care operates statewide out of five regional offices located in north, central and south louisiana. Regional methodist foster care staff members recruit, train, certify and support the foster families who provide therapeutic foster care.each year about 8,000 children enter louisiana's foster care system after a judge determines they are unable to live with their parents for reasons of physical or sexual abuse or neglect. On any given day there are about 4,700 louisiana children who require foster care services but has about 2,000 foster homes. Louisiana is short 100's of foster homes. Methodist foster care is working to fill the gap for the children in foster care with the most significant needs.during 2025, mfc continued growth into…
$8,194,634 spent$7,977,752 earned by the program21% of program spendingHoward school is a highly ranked alternative school in louisiana and has twice been designated a "top gains" school by louisiana department of education. During the 2025 calendar year, emotionally disturbed children from across the state of louisiana attended howard school on the ruston compus of louisiana methodist children's home. 95% of students attending howard school are economically disadvantaged.named in memory of a generous benefactor, mrs. Lorraine nobles howard, "howard school" is licensed by louisiana's department of education as an alternative school. Students who attend howard school receive more "seat time" in howard school than is likely in the tradional school settings they will return to upon discharge.howard school is staffed by fifteen well-trained, certified professionals, including a guidance counselor, and numerous support staff who provide quality educational services to traumatized children. The average daily student count for educational services at howard school and the john allen vocational center was 84. End-of-course testing at the high school in 2025 resulted in a passing rate of 57%. Carnegie credits were awarded to high school youth who remained in…
$1,320,552 spent$525,208 earned by the program3% of program spendingLife skills training center: with regional life skills training centers in the monroe, covington, lafayette, and lake charles regions, in 2025 the four life skills training centers in louisiana served over 650 children in the state's custody.owl equine center program: this program offers therapeutic horsemanship classes and therapeutic riding lessons for individuals with physical and developmental disabilities. Located on the 800-acre owl center campus, owl equine center has two path certified equine instructors and provides therapeutic riding lessons for individuals with handicaps and therapeudic horsemanship classes for youth from the community.outdoor wilderness learning center: the owl center is an 800-acre experiential campus in north central la which served over 5,000 individuals in 2025 through a variety of therapeutic, recreational, and educational programs. The owl center features equine facilities; a large, multi-purpose sports field; a pavilion; a challenge course with low and high elements; and camping facilities with cabins, showers and restroom facilities, kitchen and storage, and a bunkhouse for large groups.the most important facility at the owl center is the…
$2,728,635 spent$359,690 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,844,484.
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 2020 to 2021, from $80M to $90M (+12%).
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 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 7% · 2021 6% · 2022 2% · 2023 1% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Richard Wheat Jr
President/CEO
Board chair
William James
Director - chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $76k → $333k.
15 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC’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
LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
89% 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 LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 41% · 2019 43% · 2020 64% · 2021 21% · 2022 16% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
88% of LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 states 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
LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,288 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
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 LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: 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 LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,133,470 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ($414,674). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,133,470 in grants to LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC is the largest funder on record, with $414,674 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC 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 26 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