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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.

$19k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300
Largest grant, FY2024
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
19 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$143k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations The Gardikes Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Public BenefitEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving23$19k4%
FY202323$17k9%
FY202223$15k9%
FY202121$15k14%
FY202021$15k24%
FY201919$14k5%
FY201820$14k10%
FY201721$14kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$67kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$13kInternational$9kArts & Culture$7kEducation$3kAnimals$3kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
WY
SD
OH
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($92k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gardikes Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $12,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $3,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $2,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Air Force Museum Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArt Center Sarasota Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Hellenic Institute Inc: $450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled Veterans National Foundation: $125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Reports Inc: $58 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $49 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $35 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 17.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The Gardikes Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Gardikes Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Gardikes Family Foundation

How much does The Gardikes Family Foundation give?
The Gardikes Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $18,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Gardikes Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (55%), Health (13%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are The Gardikes Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($13k), International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc ($3k), St Stephens Indian Mission Foundation ($2k).
Does The Gardikes Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gardikes Family 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 The Gardikes Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Gardikes Family Foundation based?
The Gardikes Family Foundation is based in FL.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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