· Private foundation
Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABSOLUTELY EMBROIDERY AND MORE | $14,470 |
| DOLLARDAYS INTERNATIONAL INC | $6,801 |
| AIDVANTAGE | $5,000 |
| VERMILION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT | $4,000 |
| FISK UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT | $2,500 |
| LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY ALEXANDR | $2,500 |
| ACADIANA READING CENTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $1,800 |
| SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY | $1,513 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETT | $1,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AEABSOLUTELY EMBROIDERY AND MORE4× · 2022–2025 · $56k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $33k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- LCLOUISIANA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- AAEROPOSTALEone grant, 2024 · $2k
- MCMiles College Incone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +2%
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.
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.
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
Provide a liberal arts education with globally focused endeavors to provide an intellectually stimulating environment, promoting student competencies in communication, as well as critical and analytical thinking.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see schedule o for continuation of mission statement.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The College is an institution of higher education and provides instruction and various support services in achieving its purpose.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
Chartered in 1826, lafayette college is dedicated to excellence in undergraduate education. students are engaged in a transformative educational experience that bridges the liberal arts, engineering, and interdisciplinary study. the…
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Trinity college's mission is to provide excellence in liberal arts education with emphasis on outstanding faculty, rigorous curriculum, talented and motivated student body and an attractive, supportive and secure campus community.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA LAFAYETTE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FISK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA FOLK ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN UNIVERTY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EVANGEL CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Miles College Inc ↗
- Who funds DILLARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Randon Costello Scholarship Endowme. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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