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Danos Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hope's Path | $50,000 |
| Bless Your Heart | $30,000 |
| Permian Basin Misson Center | $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 |
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 (FY19–24, $362k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 69% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k 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
- TLTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +31%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA6× · 2019–2024 · $83k · revenue +28%
- PBPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- OFODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYSone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
- FNFree NOLA Incorporatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +6%
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.
Providing information to disabled persons and their families.
Feedingproviding meals to children
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
To provide for the material and spiritual needs of the homeless, hungry, and displaced of Northeast Louisiana, and to facilitate and assist them in getting out of the cycle of poverty.
BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.
Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
Promote family values in louisiana
To transform Southwest Louisianas economy from one that extracts from our community to one that nourishes us.
Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge and the most unlike its peers is Cl Goal Club. 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 171 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.
- Who funds THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPES PATH ↗
- Who funds ODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds REFUGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC ↗
- Who funds DULAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TERREBONNE INC ↗
- Who funds Free NOLA Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
- Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CUT OFF YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE EXTREME INC ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BILL'S BACKPACKS ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds Ward County Greater Works Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FOURCHON OILMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN BAYOU REGION ↗
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 Greater New Orleans Foundation · Bayou Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana · The New Horizons Foundation Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries
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 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.
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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