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The Gardikes Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST BARBARA GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $3,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,300 |
| ALL FAITHS FOOD BANK OF SARASOTA FL | $2,000 |
| ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MISSION | $1,800 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL | $1,500 |
| ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $1,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS | $1,200 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $900 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $700 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $650 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| ST STEPHENS INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION | $300 |
| AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION | $250 |
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 (FY20–20, $99) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +45% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +145%- IFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +45%
- NWNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION7× · 2017–2024 · $2k · revenue +72%
Funded once
JUDICIAL WATCH INCone grant, 2022 · $250 · revenue +24%- SLST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $100
- SJST JOSEPH INDIAN MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $75
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE AIR FORCE MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN & MABLE RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ART CENTER SARASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HELLENIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Gardikes Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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