Cse Community Foundation
Lake Charles, LA · EIN 93-3046379. Reported 29 grants totalling $89,950 to 29 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Cse Community Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sowela | Lake Charles, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| West Cal Cam Hospital | Lake Charles, LA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Arts & Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana | Lake Charles, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Family & Youth Counseling Agency Inc | Lake Charles, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Smoke and Barrel Inc | Lake Charles, LA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Fusion Five | Lake Charles, LA | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters | Lake Charles, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Calcasieu Area Councilboy Scouts | Lake Charles, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Calcasieu Council on Aging | Lake Charles, LA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| American Cancer Society | Baton Rouge, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Autisum Services of Swla | Lake Charles, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Black Heritage Festival of Louisiana | Lake Charles, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Families for Inclusion | Lake Charles, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mcneese Foundation | Lake Charles, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sulphur Christian Comm Coalition | Sulphur, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| This Is Home Fest | Lake Charles, LA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Gamma Lambda Sigma Chapter of Sigma | Lake Charles, LA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Oasis | Lake Charles, LA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Vines and Tynes Incorporated | Jennings, LA | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army of Lake Charles | Lake Charles, LA | $1,200 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Baton Rouge, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Evergreen Life Services | Lake Charles, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Holdens Hope | Lake Charles, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Imperial Calcasieu Museum | Lake Charles, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lighthouse Child Residential Center | Reeves, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Down Syndrome Association of Southwest Louisiana | Lake Charles, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| With You | Lake Charles, LA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Merryvill Historical Society and Museum | Merryville, LA | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Stacies Stargazers | Lake Charles, LA | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Sowela
provide financial literacy program for students - West Cal Cam Hospital
provide financial assistance to graduating high school students & provide financial assistance to breast cancer patients in the community - Arts & Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana
support for ChuckFest - free music and culture festival - Family & Youth Counseling Agency Inc
partnership for Tasting on the Terrace Event that raises funds for victim advocacy to children - Smoke and Barrel Inc
sponsor event to raise funding for worthy local charities - Fusion Five
connecting & engaging young professionals in SWLA
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Cse Community Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2024-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 4321 Nelson Rd, Lake Charles, LA, 70605. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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