Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana Inc
Monroe, LA · EIN 72-1333809. Reported 57 grants totalling $7,834,636 to 50 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $68,274. Half of what it reported fell between $42,531 and $131,566; the smallest was $6,682 and the largest $1,004,262. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
57 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $7,834,636 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray of Hope--World Outreach Ministries | Monroe, LA | $1,004,262 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bawcomville Hope | West Monroe, LA | $776,430 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Baptist Convention Executive Board | Alexandria, LA | $721,995 | 5 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grace Place Ministries Inc | Monroe, LA | $653,491 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mt Zion Baptist Church | Rayville, LA | $592,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rays of Sonshine | Monroe, LA | $387,109 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lincoln United Community Coalition | Ruston, LA | $336,183 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fresh Start Outreach Ministries | Winnsboro, LA | $314,387 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zion Helping Hands Inc | Bastrop, LA | $271,259 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mt Pleasant Community Development Corporation | Monroe, LA | $226,317 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Comfort Corner | Oak Grove, LA | $170,312 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries | Monroe, LA | $144,464 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lewis Temple | Grambling, LA | $127,894 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Broken Wings Mission Center & Thrift Store | Farmerville, LA | $122,658 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater New Orleans Teen Challenge Inc | Metairie, LA | $116,623 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wesleyan Church Corporation | Fishers, IN | $114,541 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Community Action Inc | Ruston, LA | $112,650 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marion Missionary Baptist Chu | Marion, LA | $99,704 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christ Association | Benicia, CA | $87,671 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hellfighters West Monroe La Unit | West Monroe, LA | $87,626 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Hopewell Bc | Bernice, LA | $83,147 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| King David Mbc | Mangham, LA | $82,669 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Living Word | Ruston, LA | $74,017 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zion Traveler Ouachita | Ruston, LA | $70,046 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Calhoun Church of Christ | Calhoun, LA | $68,274 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faith Church Eden Center | Ruston, LA | $68,030 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Assemblies of God Church | Lead, SD | $64,397 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Apostolic Restoration Church of West Monroe | West Monroe, LA | $63,709 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hand Up Ministries | Hodge, LA | $61,902 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Matthew Mbc #1 | Mer Rouge, LA | $60,475 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ouachita Multi Purpose Community Action Program Inc | Monroe, LA | $59,120 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Rest Mbc | Quitman, LA | $58,082 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Whites Ferry Road Church of Christ Inc | West Monroe, LA | $50,957 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Ouachita Senior Center | West Monroe, LA | $49,582 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Baptist Wisner | Wisner, LA | $46,803 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| General Conference of Seventh Day Adventist | Silver Spring, MD | $44,748 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oneonta Baptist Church | St Joseph, LA | $42,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Zion Traveler Lincon | Monroe, LA | $42,531 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Robinson-Williams Restoration of Hope | Bastrop, LA | $35,653 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Luke Mb Church | Vicksburg, MS | $35,184 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Vine Monroe | Monroe, LA | $32,078 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St John Missionary Baptist C | Tallulah, LA | $31,159 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Living Gospel Church | Los Angeles, CA | $28,103 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Outreach Deliverance Ministries C/O Outreach Praise and Worship | Monroe, LA | $24,642 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Giving Spirit Community Food Pantry | Rayville, LA | $20,770 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Louisiana at Monroe Alumni Association | Monroe, LA | $19,015 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Holy Temple Cogic | Bastrop, LA | $18,179 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| True Vine Bastrop | Bastrop, LA | $14,944 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Warren & Linda Trimble Ministries | Monroe, LA | $8,177 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pinnacle Family Health Inc | West Monroe, LA | $7,317 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 22 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
95% of its giving went to organizations in Louisiana. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $68,274 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Louisiana.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Food Bank of Northeast Louisiana Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 57 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 4600 Central Ave, Monroe, LA, 71203.
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