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Gadomski Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY | $300,000 |
| ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| MATERNITY B V M PARISH & SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $100,000 |
| DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $100,000 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS OF THE MIDWEST | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS INC | $10,000 |
| DISCALCED CARMELITE NUNS | $5,000 |
| GIFTS OF LOVE INC | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS | $4,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CBCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $117k · revenue +17%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- VMVISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
YOUTH VILLAGES INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
GIVEDIRECTLY INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…
Service the homeless and assist poverty stricken families
Assist private development projects
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
The foundation exists to cultivate and administer current and deferred gifts for the benefit of ms united methodist related institutions, agencies, local churches, and other ministries for charitable purposes and support and to educate…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Memphis Inc and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 45 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 CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds HAITI MEDICAL MISSIONS OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN EYE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds The Regional Medical Center at Memphis Foundation ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds BALLET MEMPHIS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds BRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds Christ Community Health Services Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Crews Family Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Speer Charitable Trust · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation · Plough Foundation · The Assisi Foundation of Memphis Inc · The Day 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 organization Gadomski Family 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.