· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| WINNSBORO MAIN STREET ECONOMIC COMMITTEE | $22,500 |
| FRANKLIN PARISH LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| GROW GILBERT | $15,000 |
| WISNER WINS | $15,000 |
| PRINCESS THEATRE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BASKIN COMMUNITY COMMITTE | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Southern Center for Children & Families Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin Tennis Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MED-CAMPS OF LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BASKIN COMMUNITY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST LOUISIANA SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDON KIRK SIMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CROWVILLE ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES HUMANE SOCIETY FOR CAT ↗
- Who funds PAWS OF NE LOUISIANA INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Como Charitable Foundation Inc % Dennis Gardner funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Como Charitable Foundation Inc % Dennis Gardner. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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