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Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
65%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,300
Largest grant, FY2025
$14,470
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$935k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$71k40%
FY202420$72k65%
FY202312$53k25%
FY202217$48k47%
FY202111$44k55%
FY20206$24kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$232kInternational$7kArts & Culture$2kRecreation & Sports$300Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Louisiana Lafayette Alumni Association$25,85042%
Dollar Days International Inc$13,7292n/a
Fisk University$13,30040%
Louisiana Folk Roots Inc$6,50024%
Southern Univerty System$5,42720%
Texas Christian University$1,80010%
Evangel Christian Academy Inc$1,12510%
Miles College Inc$1,00010%
Dillard University$1,00010%
Healing House Inc$7201n/a

Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Louisiana Lafayette Alumni Association: $25,850 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetFisk University: $13,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Folk Roots Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetSouthern Univerty System: $5,427 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian University: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEvangel Christian Academy Inc: $1,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiles College Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDillard University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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About Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme

How much does Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme give?
Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme reported 29 grants totaling $70,681 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (96%), International (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
Who are Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Louisiana Lafayette Alumni Association ($26k), Dollar Days International Inc ($14k), Fisk University ($13k).
Does Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme based?
Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme is based in LA.

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 44 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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