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Como Charitable Foundation Inc % Dennis Gardner
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of COMO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC % DENNIS GARDNER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $913k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF WINNSBORO | $243,926 |
| THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC | $237,516 |
| Individual grant recipient | $227,058 |
| FRANKLIN TENNIS ASSOCIATION | $154,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA MONROE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CROWVILLE INC 2021 GRANT | $40,000 |
| MED CAMPS OF LOUISIANA | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WINNSBORO MAIN STREET ECONOMIC COMMITTEE | $22,500 |
| GROW GILBERT | $15,000 |
| WISNER WINS | $15,000 |
| BRANDON K SIMS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BASKIN COMMUNITY COMMITTE | $15,000 |
| FRANKLIN PARISH LIBRARY | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 24%, against an area that typically sits at 21%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SCSouthern Center for Children & Families Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +7%
- LTLOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +46%
- SFSt Francis Medical Center Foundation Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $141k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FPFRANKLIN PARISH SCHOOL BOARDone grant, 2024 · $150k
- FMFRANKLIN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FPFRANKLIN PARISH MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To improve opportunities for cancer research in Louisiana and enhance educational efforts regarding prevention and control over cancer.
To improve the quality of health care in louisiana by the promotion, improvement, and protection of professional nursing through education, advocacy, communication, and professional integrity. to collect and distribute monies for specific…
Lafayette Animal Aid was incorporated and filed for exempt status 501(c)(3) in 1976 with sole purpose of helping to manage and care for the animal population in the lafayette Parish Area of Louisiana.
The primary function of the Jackson Council on the Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving…
It is the mission of the spirit of charity foundation to support and facilitate patient-centered care, actively promote health and wellness and to advance medical research and education through fundraising efforts for the benefit of umcno,…
To assist in improving healthcare in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.
The primary function of the Tensas Council on Aging, Inc. is to improve the quality of life for the parish's elderly and to provide services to the elderly as well as coordinate and monitor the services of other local agencies serving the…
To be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform functions of and to carry out the purposes of the louisiana society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, which operates to prevent cruelty to animals.
To provide public awareness, education and technical assistance regarding end-of-life care, as well as advocacy for terminally ill and bereaved persons, striving to continually improve the quality of end-of-life care in Louisiana and…
The mission of the association is to promote rural health as a distinct concern in louisiana; to serve as a forum for a unified voice for healthcare providers, public officials, healthcare workers, educators, and consumers working to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Louisiana At Monroe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pilots for Patients. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 24% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWVILLE ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF NE LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES HUMANE SOCIETY FOR CAT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Scott Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · Community Foundation of North Louisiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Como Charitable Foundation Inc % Dennis Gardner funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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