· Public charity
The Andrew Gomez Dream Foundation
The foundation provides educational opportunities and financial assistance to pre- and post-graduate students in the field of cosmetology who are socially and economically disadvantaged and provides financial support to cosmetologists or cosmetology-related enterprises facing hardship.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $368,929 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $658,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $289,859 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $269k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEEZA'S CARE CONNECTION | $50,000 |
| UNCF | $50,000 |
| CAST | $49,000 |
| BEST FRIEND ANIMAL SOCIETY | $49,000 |
| NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC | $44,040 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $42,389 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $34,500 |
| THE THIRST PROJECT | $25,000 |
| LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $576k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +50% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 7 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 FY2024, 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
- LGLEEZA GIBBONS MEMORY FOUNDATION INC dba LEEZAS CARE CONNECTION8× · 2017–2024 · $568k · revenue +134% · 27% of their budget
- NLNO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $533k · revenue +38%
- TTTHE THIRST PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $482k · revenue +153% · 37% of their budget
Funded once
- MJMAGIC JOHNSON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $73k
- TEThe Eye Cancer Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +71%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $28k
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.
Beauty bus foundation delivers loving kindness, support and compassion to seriously ill patients and their caregivers through beauty and grooming services.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beauty Changes Lives and the most unlike its peers is Change Your Brain Change Your Life Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 28 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 LEEZA GIBBONS MEMORY FOUNDATION INC dba LEEZAS CARE CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds NO LIMITS THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE THIRST PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAST INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES ↗
- Who funds LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHANGE YOUR BRAIN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROBS BARBERSHOP COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds READY SET RIDE THERAPEUTIC RECREATION FACILITY ↗
- Who funds MAGGIE'S WIGS4KIDS OF MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BORIS LAWRENCE HENSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAKFAST CLUB KIDS ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Andrew Gomez Dream 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.
- Cast Inc — 15% of income from government
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.
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