Power Coalition for Equity and Justice
New Orleans, LA · EIN 83-2511340. Reported 36 grants totalling $1,307,084 to 30 organizations across tax years 2022-2024, 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 Power Coalition for Equity and Justice, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in civil rights (NTEE R01).
- How spread out its giving is. 30 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $21,875. Half of what it reported fell between $9,500 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $300,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund | New Orleans, LA | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cultural Crossroads Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Women With a Vision | New Orleans, LA | $105,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Mutual Help Association Inc | New Iberia, LA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Faith in Florida Inc | Orlando, FL | $87,759 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| A Sani Heartbeat | New Orleans, LA | $62,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Planning Excellence Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Partnership for Children and Families | Baton Rouge, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Memphis Artists for Change | Memphis, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Micah Project | New Orleans, LA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Alliance for Affordable Energy | New Orleans, LA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| A Bella Lafemme Society | Baton Rouge, LA | $41,025 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Families and Friends of Louisianasincarcerated Children | New Orleans, LA | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana Museum Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Womens Foundation of the South | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| For Providers By Providers Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jena G LLC | Slidell, LA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Institute for Enhanced Equity | New Orleans, LA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little Zorah Missionary Baptist Church of New Iberia Inc | New Iberia, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Horizon School | Renton, WA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pumps to the Polls | Donaldsonville, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants | Baton Rouge, LA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Happy Mama | Gretna, LA | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christian Baptist Church | Lake Charles, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Maxine Firm LLC | Baton Rouge, LA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emerge Center Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our Voice Nuestra Voz | New Orleans, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Southern University Chapter of NAACP | Baton Rouge, LA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sceptre Foundation Inc | Baton Rouge, LA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
6 of 30 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Step Up Louisiana Organizing Fund
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION FIELD ORGANIZING 2024 STEP UP 2024 GRANT; FALL FOR LIBERATION ORGANIZER IN TRAINING PROGRAM - Cultural Crossroads Inc
ARTSPRENEUR CONFERENCE (THE BUSINESS OF ART) - Women With a Vision Inc
BAIL FUND 2024; INTEGRATED VOTER ENGAGEMENT 2023 - YOUTH ORGANIZING AND EDUCATION RELATED TO ROE V WADE; GOLD LEVEL SPONSORSHIP FOR THE BLACK TEA PARTY LGBTQ VOTE OUTREACH EVENT 9/21 - Faith in Florida
POS PURCHASE 03/01 8377 FL ORLAN POS PURCHASE 03/01 8377 FL ORLANDO IN FAITH IN FL US S; GRANT INVESTING IN BLACK WOMEN-LED CLIMATE JUSTICE EFFORTS, BLACK WOMEN ORGANIZER CLIMATE JUSTICE SUMMIT; ACH PREFUND ACHBATCH - Southern Mutual Help Association Inc
GENERAL SUPPORT & OPERATIONS - Memphis Artists for Change
GRANT TO SUPPORT MOVEMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN MEMPHIS AROUND THE ADVOCACY WORK WITH THE TN LEGISLATURE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 30 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | $125,000 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $510,775 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $671,309 | $10,000 |
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
89% 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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $21,875 -- 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 Power Coalition for Equity and Justice's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 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: 4930 Washington Ave Suite E, New Orleans, LA, 70125.
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