Louisiana · Nonprofit
United Way of Acadiana Inc
United Way of Acadiana Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,252,821 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,742,383). 22 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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What United Way of Acadiana Inc does
Mission
United way of acadiana's mission is to unite people and organizations with passion, expertise and resources to create more opportunities for a better life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Through a federal grant awarded by the administration for children and families, department of head start, the united way of acadiana operates an early head start program serving 103 children and families. The center-based program serves children 6 weeks to three years old and the home-based program serves pregnant women and children up to 3 years old. The program operates two (2) early childhood education centers; one in abbeville serving vermilion parish and the other in lafayette serving families in the 70501, 70503, 70506 and 70507 zip code areas. The program provides high-quality early childhood education services to ensure all children enter school ready to learn. Additionally, we help every family by connecting them to resources to overcome challenges and achieve their goals for education, employment, and housing. This approach plays a transformative role across generations. Every child completing a complete program year exceeded the school readiness goals by 85% in overall growth in areas of social-emotional development, literacy, mathematics, science and cognitive development. Children are selected into our program through a rating system that gives priority to children…
$2,001,405 spent57% of program spendingUnited way of acadiana granted $410,296 to support a total of 15 community programs and initiatives in the form of pact grants and other grants that focus on education, earnings, and essential focus areas. United way of acadiana targets its grantmaking to increase the number of young people who graduate from high school on time; to help hard working, low-income families become more financially stable by building and sustaining appreciating assets; and to help residents meet their basic needs after temporary financial setbacks or wide-scale disaster. Dolly partons imagination library (dpil) provides a free, new, age-appropriate book each month to enrolled children from birth up to 5 years of age. Research shows that the best way to help children learn to read is to read to them; yet most homes in poverty have only 4 or fewer books. Dpil helps families give their children an environment that is rich in education experiences and encourages parents to spend time reading with their children.united way of acadiana is helping to implement franklin coveys the leader in me in all interested schools in our service area. Based on steven coveys the 7 habits of highly effective people, the…
$1,086,427 spentof which $338,575 as grants31% of program spendingUnited way of acadianas vision is for an educated, prosperous and safe acadiana where all individuals and families achieve their potential. United way of acadianas mission is to unite people and organizations with passion, expertise and resources to create more opportunities for a better life. Uwa's volunteer center maintains a base of volunteers who are actively engaged in activities that support education, earnings, and essentials. Our multi-tenant facility also made available at no charge for meetings by other non-profits and is used for storage throughout the year for items used in collaboration with other partners for disaster recovery, educational materials, and building supplies. It allows non-profits to develop their own capacity to work within our main focus area of education, earnings, and essentials through occupancy support at below market rates. Uwa tenants are lafayette parish public library, american red cross, casa of sola, and second harvest food bank of greater new orleans and acadiana.
$331,985 spent10% of program spendingLouisiana volunteer organizations active in disasters (lavoad) has become increasingly vital to the states efforts in identifying needs, deploying assets, gathering information and coordinating disaster response and recovery efforts through an organized statewide network of community-based organizations. Uwa continues to serve in leadership positions for lavoad and the local acadiana voad (avoad). Uwa staff will lead the organizations efforts in activating resources to impact acadiana parishes in response to disasters. Uwa also participates in the efsp programs in acadiana. The emergency food and shelter program (efsp) is governed by a national board, chaired by the federal emergency management agency. The program was created to help meet the needs of hungry and homeless people throughout the united states and its territories by allocating federal funds for the provision of food and shelter. Through local boards responsible for determining which organizations will receive funds and which services are funded, the efsp distributes funds to human service agencies.
$72,044 spentof which $60,107 as grants2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,491,861.
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 $6.6M to $7.8M (+18%).
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 26% · 2018 28% · 2019 31% · 2020 38% · 2021 30% · 2022 29% · 2023 45% · 2024 49% · 2025 59%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of United Way of Acadiana Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Heather Blanchard
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $449k.
10 of 40 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: $1.1M from 10 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of Acadiana). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way of Acadiana Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of United Way of Acadiana Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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
United Way of Acadiana Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
75% 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 United Way of Acadiana Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 48% · 2023 45% — 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.
How long its funders stay
35% of United Way of Acadiana Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
63% of United Way of Acadiana Inc'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 $1.2M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
United Way of Acadiana Inc is better cushioned than half of the 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,645 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding United Way of Acadiana Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.7M
- Department of the Treasury$512k
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 United Way of Acadiana 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 United Way of Acadiana 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 United Way of Acadiana Inc?
- United Way of Acadiana Inc (Louisiana) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,252,821 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,742,383). 22 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 United Way of Acadiana Inc have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $3,252,821 in grants to United Way of Acadiana Inc, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of United Way of Acadiana Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,742,383 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like United Way of Acadiana 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 40 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing