United Way of Northwest Louisiana

Analysis

United Way of Northwest Louisiana is a registered charity in United States, based in Shreveport, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1956, 70 years ago. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2022, United Way of Northwest Louisiana reported income of $2.1m and spending of $2.0m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $1.5m to $2.1m (+38%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, United Way of Northwest Louisiana sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 86th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Waldorf Association of Whatcom County ($2.1m), Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization ($2.1m) and Richard Laylord Evans and Dorothy L Evans Foundation ($2.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 98% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $327k, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 19 employees.