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Danos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$508k
Granted FY2025still arriving
84
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$538kFood & Nutrition$158kHousing & Shelter$55kYouth Development$54kEmployment$22kReligion$21kCivil Rights$19kInternational$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $410k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$610
Median grant
7
States reached
$506k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE'S PATH$50,000
BLESS YOUR HEART NONPROFIT CORPORATION$40,100
BAGS OF HOPE$40,000
COASTAL CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION$31,950
SKILLPOINT ALLIANCE PERMIAN BASIN$30,000
PERMIAN BASIN MISSON CENTER$30,000
START CORPORATION$28,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$25,000
THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM$25,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF ODESSA$25,000
HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIA$17,500
CASA OF MISSISSIPPI$15,000
CASA OF TERREBONNE$12,000
BYNUM SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Beverly's Birthdays: $15k → 10%HOPE'S PATH: $50k → 9%COMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%Catholic Charities Community Services Odessa Inc: $40k → 12%Permian Basin Misson Center: $30k → 16%Beauregard ARC: $240 → 15%BEVERLY'S BIRTHDAYS: $3k → 10%Hope's Path: $50k → 9%Permian Basin Misson Center: $20k → 16%ST MARY OUTREACH: $3k → 18%ST JOSEPH HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $160 → 19%Beverly's Birthdays: $3k → 10%HOPES PATH: $80 → 9%311 MINISTRIES: $100 → 12%The Life of a Single Mom: $50k → 19%The Furniture Bank: $20k → 16%The Life of a Single Mom: $50k → 19%Houston Furniture Bank: $20k → 16%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $25k → 19%HOUSTON FURNITURE BANK: $20k → 16%The Life of a Single Mom: $15k → 19%Houston Furniture Bank: $130 → 16%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $3k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $3k → 19%The life of a Single Mom: $65 → 19%MacDonnell United Mthodist Childrens Services: $705 → 16%CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 17%MacDonnell United Methodist Childrens Services: $540 → 16%MacDonnell United Methodist Children's Services: $400 → 16%CHERISH TIMES TWO: $270 → 16%CASA OF LAFOURCHE: $525 → 17%LAFOURCHE ARC: $500 → 17%MacDonell United Methodist Children's Services: $260 → 16%CASA of Lafourche: $340 → 17%Cherish Times Two: $190 → 16%Hope Restored Pregnancy Resource Center: $250 → 16%BLESS YOUR HEART NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40k → 17%Bless Your Heart: $30k → 17%BLESS YOUR HEART: $1k → 17%Bless Your Heart: $350 → 17%SOUTH LOUISIANA VETERAN'S OUTREACH: $355 → 16%SOUTH LOUISIANA VETERAN OUTREACH: $120 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MA
PA
NM
LA
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 8% of Danos Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 58%.

Danos Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 79 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 47 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
91

Total granted

$1.2M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+12%

Still filing today

53%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    6× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +35%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $108k · revenue +28%
  • PB
    PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +5%
  • FN
    Free NOLA Incorporated
    one grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +6%
  • TS
    The Salvation Army Houma Service Center
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Louisiana Organization for Refugees and Immigrants
International
2
Bayou Land Families Helping Families

Providing information to disabled persons and their families.

Human Services
3
Belly Buddies Inc

Feedingproviding meals to children

Food & Nutrition
4
Center for Family and Youth Services

Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.

Human Services
5
Baton Rouge Area Alcohol and Drug Center Inc

BRAADC offers a lifeline to adult men and women suffering with substance abuse/addiction through providing non-medical detoxification services to anyone entering voluntarily.

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6
Together Louisiana

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…

Public Benefit
7
Renewal Center of Northeast Louisiana Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
Central Louisiana Pro Bono Project
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9
Acadiana Outreach Center Inc

Acadiana outreach center, inc. provides shelter and support to help the poor and homeless rebuild their lives.

Religion
10
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

—
11
Congenital Heart Foundation of Louisiana

Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.

Health
12
Family Reach Alliance

Family Reach Alliance provides homeless children and their families with safe & comfortable shelter, meals and compassionate support. Local church congregations throughout the parishes of St. Tammany, Tangipahoa and Washington host up to…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge; 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.
05the grantee network

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 201 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/81
Grantees still filing
47/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $145,065 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOMHOPES PATH: $100,080 · Human ServicesHOPES PATHBless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation: $71,655 · Human ServicesBless Your Heart Nonprofit CorporationTHE FURNITURE BANK: $60,130 · Human ServicesTHE FURNITURE BANKPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $50,000 · Human ServicesPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTERREFUGE SERVICES INC: $42,500 · Human ServicesREFUGE SERVICES INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA IN…START Corporation: $28,000 · Human Services+17 more: $79,605 · Human Services+17 moreODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS: $75,000 · OtherODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYSBAGS OF HOPE: $65,315 · OtherBAGS OF HOPESKILLPOINT ALLIANCE PERMIAN BASIN: $55,000 · OtherSKILLPOINT ALLIANCE PERMIAN BASINDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,330 · OtherDULAC COMMUNITY CENTERPERMIAN BASIN MISSON CENTER: $30,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIA: $27,500 · OtherNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC: $23,155 · OtherST FRANCIS VEGETABLE GARDEN INC: $23,000 · Other+146 more: $260,275 · Other+146 moreSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $108,455 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…BILL'S BACKPACKS: $11,500 · Food & NutritionBILL'S BA…Ward County Greater Works Inc: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $360 · Food & NutritionHOPE EXTREME INC: $20,060 · Youth DevelopmentCUT OFF YOUTH CENTER: $15,345 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN BAYOU REGION: $2,520 · Youth DevelopmentCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $32,340 · EnvironmentFriends of Bayou Lafourche Inc: $2,016 · Environment+5 more: $610 · EnvironmentCASA OF TERREBONNE INC: $31,230 · Civil RightsBYNUM SCHOOL: $18,250 · EducationFOURCHON OILMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $2,945 · Education+3 more: $935 · Education
Human Services$617,035Other$594,575Food & Nutrition$125,315Youth Development$50,425Environment$34,966Civil Rights$31,230Education$22,130

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $145,065 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $108,455 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPES PATH: $100,080 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS: $75,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation: $71,655 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE FURNITURE BANK: $60,130 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetREFUGE SERVICES INC: $42,500 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER: $35,330 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $32,340 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF TERREBONNE INC: $31,230 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSTART Corporation: $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MISSION INC: $23,155 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE EXTREME INC: $20,060 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBYNUM SCHOOL: $18,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCUT OFF YOUTH CENTER: $15,345 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCASA MISSISSIPPI INC: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFree NOLA Incorporated: $14,400 over 1y, 17% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetA PLACE OF RESTORATION: $12,100 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBILL'S BACKPACKS: $11,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetBayou Community Foundation: $8,542 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW LIFE COUNSELING INC: $5,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWard County Greater Works Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSCHRIEVER LIONS CLUB: $3,120 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF HOUMA LA INC: $3,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOURCHON OILMAN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $2,945 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,603 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $2,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN BAYOU REGION: $2,520 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOMAL COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ORLEANS HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BATON ROUGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH LOUISIANA: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Mary Outreach Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL LAFOURCHE BASEBALL ASS: $2,035 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Bayou Lafourche Inc: $2,016 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Haven Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMacDonell United Methodist Children's Services Inc: $1,905 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAYOU CIVIC CLUB INC: $1,845 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBAKER BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $1,080 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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 THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
  • Who funds HOPES PATH ↗
  • Who funds ODESSA FAMILY PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds Bless Your Heart Nonprofit Corporation ↗
  • Who funds THE FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • Who funds PERMIAN BASIN MISSION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds REFUGE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ODESSA INC ↗
  • Who funds DULAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF TERREBONNE INC ↗
  • Who funds START Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE EXTREME INC ↗
  • Who funds BEVERLY'S PGH ↗
  • Who funds BYNUM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CUT OFF YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASA MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
  • Who funds Free NOLA Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds EDEN CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF ACADIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE OF RESTORATION ↗
  • Who funds BILL'S BACKPACKS ↗
  • Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Bayou Community Found…Community Foundation …Baton Rouge Area Foun…Shell USA Company Fou…Catholic Foundation o…The New Horizons Foun…Second Harvest Food B…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Greater Houston Commu…The Joe W and Dorothy…Baptist Community Min…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA47.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 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 · 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Danos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Danos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Danos Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Danos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 201 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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