Texas · Private foundation
Gardner Charitable 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.
- $3k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 3
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $50k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Gardner Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $6k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $2k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $2k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $800 | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas Children's Advocacy Center | $3,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Grace - Giving and Receiving Assistance for Our Community's Essentials Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Park Cities Learning Differences As | $1,920 | 3 | 2% |
| The Children's Shelter | $570 | 1 | 0% |
| Preschool Advantage Inc | $550 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Advocates San Antonio | $550 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Gardner Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gardner Charitable Foundation give?
- Gardner Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $3,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Gardner Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), Crime & Legal (25%), Health (19%).
- Who are Gardner Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dallas Children's Advocacy Center ($4k), Grace - Giving and Receiving Assistance for Our Community's Essentials Inc ($2k), Park Cities Learning Differences As ($2k).
- Does Gardner Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gardner Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gardner Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Gardner Charitable Foundation based?
- Gardner Charitable Foundation is based in TX.
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