Louisiana · Nonprofit
UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES
UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,056 to it, the largest being SECOND CHANCE FOUNDATION ($385,888). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $157k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $622k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Upward Community Services does
Mission
To improve the lives of the working poor in washington and st tammany parish by giving them the opportunity ans exposure needed to break the cycle of poverty, crime, neglect and substance abuse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
The entity provides eight weeks of summer camps catering to at risk children. We host an average of 100 children that learn arts and crafts, bible study, character building, conflict resolution swimming and other outdoor activities. The children are two hot meals and a snack during the day.our teen councelors are given job, resume and interview training as well as a college tour at the end of the summer.
$167,045 spent100% of program spendingOur drug and alcohol rehabilitation program services an average of 60 men each year. Of this number, approxiamately 15 will complete the program and graduate. Enrollees are taught tools to overcome their addictions in daily classes as well as participate in rewarding work activites. This program is instrumental in helping men be restored to their family with new hope.
Our after school homework assistance and mentoring program serves an average of 25 children per day during the school year. The children are provided after school snacks, homework assistance and tutoring in weak subject areas as well as other various enrichment activites.
Preschool care provided for children ages 2-4 at low or now tuition for families in need to provide safe, secure, fun, recreartional and educational experiences to help them prepare for the future.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $167,045.
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 2022 to 2023, from $75k to $101k (+34%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $78k → $45k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES’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
UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 80% · 2019 55% · 2020 78% · 2021 54% · 2022 50% · 2023 85% — 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
33% of UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
83% of UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES's revenue fell 28% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES
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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: 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 UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES (Louisiana) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $622,056 to it, the largest being SECOND CHANCE FOUNDATION ($385,888). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $622,056 in grants to UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES?
- SECOND CHANCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $385,888 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UPWARD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 10 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