How much did Danos Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of Danos Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

religiouschildrenchurch

2019

homelessnessreligiousfight againstpreventvolunteershungeradvocacy

2020

givesworksorleanshopemethodistbayouchurch

2021

workspurchasemeals shelterguestsministriesstudentscommercial

2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k67 grants · $52k
$10k–50k9 grants · $190k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$390

Median grant

States reached

$427k

Total assets

Largest grants

Hope's Path$50,000
Permian Basin Misson Center$30,000
Bless Your Heart$30,000
Second Harvest Food Bank$25,000
Skillpoint Alliance Permian Basin$25,000
St Francis Vegetable Garden$22,000
Houston Furniture Bank$20,000
The Life of a Single Mom$15,000
CASA of Terrebonne$12,500
Boys & Girls Club of Acadia$10,000
Cut Off Youth Center$6,700
Bynum School$5,500
Dulac Community Center$5,000
Bill's Backpacks$5,000
Bethel Ministries$2,660

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 13%. 57% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Danos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in LA; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Danos Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$581k · 52 repeat orgs$387k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$581k

$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+27%

Still filing today

38%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

TL
The life of a Single Mom
5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +79%
DC
Dulac Community Center
6× · 2019–2024 · $35k · revenue +16%
NO
New Orleans Mission
6× · 2018–2023 · $23k · revenue +79%

Funded once

FP
Family Promise of Odessagraduated
one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +102%
CC
Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Incgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +118%
TF
The Furniture Bank
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Swla Inc

To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

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Louisiana Wildlife Agents

To foster, protect and promote the welfare and interest of all classified commissioned wildlife enforcement agents, active or retired; to encourage and promote the constant improvement of public service rendered by the office of…

Animals

Heart of Louisiana Humane Society

Animals

Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame

To promote the sports history of louisiana and its many accomplished athletes through the establishment and maintenance of a central hall of fame and the preservation of sports history and memorabilia.

—

Junior League of Shreveport-

The junior league of shreveport-bossier, inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potnetial of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

Community Improvement

Christus Health Central Louisiana

Supporting the health care ministries of the sponsoring congregations in extending the healing ministry of jesus christ in comformity with the roman catholic church.

Health

Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants

International

Thibodaux Main Street Inc

Revitalizing Downtown Thibodaux

Community Improvement

Future Athletes of Louisiana

Future Athletes of Louisiana, Inc. is focused on the personal growth of the youth of Louisiana through participation in athletics. By facilitating children?s participation in sports on both an individual and team basis, we will begin to…

Recreation & Sports

Keep Livingston Parish Beautiful Inc

To promote beautification and a litter-free community.

Environment

Southwest Louisiana Aids Council

To provide education to the people of southwest louisiana about hiv/aids, hiv prevention, and to offer medical and social services to people living with hiv.

Health

Youth Oasis

To provide emergency shelter and necessary support services to runaway, abandoned, and homeless youth ages 10-21 within the Greater Baton Rouge area, enabling them to transition into responsible and successful citizens.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Restore or Retreat. 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 24 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/86

the rest of the field

16%

4,284/27,452

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.

06the grantee network

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

64/68

Grantees still filing

48/68

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$542,939Human Services$334,215Youth Development$36,060Civil Rights$19,230Food & Nutrition$12,500Education$11,520Community Improvement$11,042

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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA46.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Bayou Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Capital Area United Way · Blue Cross & Blue Shield Of · Baptist Community Ministries · Permian Basin Area Foundation

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 organisation Danos Foundation 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.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Family Promise of Odessa.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 261828381 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Family Promise of Odessa, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Danos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Danos Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Danos Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Danos Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Danos Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Danos Foundation?

More from the funding graph