Living Well Foundation
West Monroe, LA · EIN 20-5705242. Reported 119 grants totalling $3,410,825 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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 Living Well Foundation, by its IRS classification it exists to support one specific institution in health care -- typically its own parent hospital, university or school (NTEE E11).
- How spread out its giving is. 54 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 much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,239 and $28,597; the smallest was $5,745 and the largest $187,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morehouse Community Medical Centers Inc | Bastrop, LA | $435,000 | 7 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens Coalition for Northeast Louisiana | Monroe, LA | $350,830 | 5 | 3 | 2025 |
| Ulm - Riser Dental Hygiene | Monroe, LA | $226,227 | 20 | 5 | 2025 |
| Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine | Monroe, LA | $187,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Richland Parish Hospital | Delhi, LA | $186,875 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Southern Center for Children and Families Inc | Monroe, LA | $150,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| La Delta Community College | Monroe, LA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Northeast Louisiana Childrens Museum Inc | Monroe, LA | $136,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Union General Hospital | Farmerville, LA | $130,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Ascent Health Inc | Monroe, LA | $101,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Franklin Parish Hsd 1 Dba Franklin Medical Center | Winnsboro, LA | $90,149 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | Brookhaven, GA | $85,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Nela | West Monroe, LA | $81,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Arc of Ouachita | Monroe, LA | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Life Choices Pregnancy Resource Center | Monroe, LA | $79,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mercy Medical Health Center | Hodge, LA | $77,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of West Monroe | West Monroe, LA | $62,753 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| La Emergency Response Network Lern | Baton Rouge, LA | $60,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kiroli Foundation | West Monroe, LA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Zion Helping Hands Inc | Bastrop, LA | $51,004 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ouachita Council on Aging | Monroe, LA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Pinnacle Family Health Inc | West Monroe, LA | $38,471 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Wellspring Alliance for Families Inc | Monroe, LA | $38,400 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Crowville | Crowville, LA | $32,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $27,016 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ulm School of Allied Health | Monroe, LA | $26,450 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Ouachita Green | West Monroe, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Francis Medical Center | Monroe, LA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Town of Farmerville | Farmerville, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ochsner LSU Health System of North Louisiana | Shreveport, LA | $21,118 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Academy of Collaborative Education | Monroe, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Market Umbrella | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The University of Louisiana at Monr | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | |
| Town of Farmerville | Farmerville, LA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dementiaalzheimers Education Event | $16,250 | 1 | 1 | 2025 | |
| Franklin Parish Council on Aging | Winnsboro, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Lyfe Skills Collaboration Inc | Winnsboro, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| West Monroe High School | West Monroe, LA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Village of Grayson | $12,750 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Rays of Sonshine | Monroe, LA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| LSU Ag Center | $12,314 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Richardson Medical Center | Rayville, LA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Center for the Blind Inc | Ruston, LA | $11,440 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Grace Place Ministries Inc | Monroe, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junior League Monroe Incorporate | Monroe, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Frederick High School | Monroe, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bright Star Ranch | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Ulm - on Campus Dental | $7,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Hsd 1B of the Parish of Richland Dba Richardson Medical Center | Rayville, LA | $7,583 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| La Tech University | Ruston, LA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Ulm - Dental Hygiene Clinics | Monroe, LA | $6,200 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jackson Parish Schools | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Bright Star Ranch Inc | Monroe, LA | $5,745 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
24 of 54 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 23 of 54 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | $322,268 | $19,108 |
| 2022 | 17 | $319,959 | $19,765 |
| 2023 | 18 | $527,005 | $13,600 |
| 2024 | 35 | $972,112 | $14,000 |
| 2025 | 36 | $1,269,481 | $18,250 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% 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 $15,000 -- 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 Living Well Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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 34 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 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: Po Box 2773, West Monroe, LA, 71294.
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