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Gadomski Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$934k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.8MReligion$687kHuman Services$245kInternational$44kHealth$38kRecreation & Sports$24kCivil Rights$22kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$660k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS INC: $102k → 17%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $10k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS INC: $10k → 17%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS INC: $5k → 17%A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $4k → 17%HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $4k → 17%REFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $2k → 17%COMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2k → 17%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $10k → 17%THISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $10k → 17%AVE MARIA HOME: $25k → 17%AVE MARIA HOME: $25k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5k → 17%RISE FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%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

IL
NY
IA
CA
MD
AR
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 35 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
10

Total granted

$3.9M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

74%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • CB
    CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $117k · revenue +17%
  • CH
    CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • VM
    VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -51%
  • YOUTH VILLAGES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +41%
  • NM
    NEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +59%
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
One Family Memphis
Human Services
2
Methodist Medical Center

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.

Health
3
Mayor's Institute for Excellence in Government Inc

Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee

Public Benefit
4
Advance Memphis

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.

Education
5
Memphis Tomorrow

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.

Community Improvement
6
Memphis Recovery Centers Inc

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,…

Health
7
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis Inc

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…

Health
8
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

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…

Health
9
Refuge Memphis

Service the homeless and assist poverty stricken families

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10
Memphis Center City Development Corporation

Assist private development projects

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11
Collegiate School of Memphis

To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.

Education
12
Methodist Foundation of Mississippi Inc

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…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rise Memphis Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $750,000 · OtherST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLDIOCESE OF MEMPHIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH: $652,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF MEMPHIS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHMATERNITY B V M PARISH & SCHOOL: $400,000 · OtherMATERNITY B V M PARISH & SCHOOLST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL: $300,000 · OtherST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL+16 more: $110,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $1,304,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY+6 more: $41,000 · EducationCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $117,000 · Human ServicesAVE MARIA HOME INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $18,000 · Human ServicesA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $17,000 · Human ServicesHAITI MEDICAL MISSIONS OF MEMPHIS: $20,000 · InternationalSOUTHERN EYE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 · InternationalCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $24,000 · HealthChrist Community Health Services Inc: $4,000 · HealthBIRTHRIGHT OF MEMPHIS INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Civil RightsMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Religion
Other$2,212,000Education$1,345,000Human Services$232,000International$40,000Health$28,000Civil Rights$22,000Religion$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY: $1,304,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST TENNESSEE INC: $117,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAVE MARIA HOME INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN EYE INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetTHISTLE AND BEE ENTERPRISES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEMPHIS ATHLETIC MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT OF MEMPHIS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD OF MEMPHIS: $18,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROOM IN THE INN - MEMPHIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Regional Medical Center at Memphis Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIARCREST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SYSTEM INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhodes College: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Community Health Services Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBY FARMS PARK CONSERVANCY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS UNION MISSON: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Inter-Faith Association: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET MEMPHIS CORPORATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST GEORGE'S INDEPENDENT SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MEMPHIS INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE MEMPHIS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Blues Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP MEMPHIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEMPHIS IN MAY INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Christian Community F…The Kemmons Wilson Fa…United Way of the Mid…Jr Hyde III Family Fo…Crews Family Foundati…Thomas W Briggs Found…Speer Charitable TrustBaptist Memorial Heal…Plough FoundationThe Assisi Foundation…The Day Foundation
Community Foundation of Greater Memphis IncTN56.9× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gadomski Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gadomski Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 45 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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