· Private foundation
The Giardina 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NICHOLLS FOUNDATION | $41,100 |
| THIBODAUX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $25,400 |
| THIBOGROW INC | $10,000 |
| ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA | $4,000 |
| LEGATUS | $2,347 |
| CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LA CENTER FOR WOMEN IN CGOVERNMENT & BUSINESS | $1,500 |
| NOTRE DAME SEMINARY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $1,000 |
| MAXINE GIARDINA CHARTER SCHOOL | $350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 62% of The Giardina Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in LA; by stated purpose, 46%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMTHE MAXINE GIARDINA CHARTER SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $62k · revenue +14%
- TVTHIBODAUX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT4× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +52%
- AEASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IPIBERIA PARISH FOUNDATION(AN AFFILIATE OF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ACIDIANA)one grant, 2019 · $15k
- NFNSU FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $14k · revenue +61%
- SJST JOSEPH CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…
Provide financial support to academic programs and student scholarships to Louisiana State University through various fundraising efforts.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…
To Promote Charitable, Educational, Scientic and Cultural Studies for Louisiana Community and Technical College System: to solicit and accept gifts, grants, appropriations, bequests and funds, including property, in order to provide…
Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…
To help build access to a high quality educational experience in a nurturing environment for families who otherwise could not afford catholic school tuition
The mission of Friends of BASIS Louisiana is to support the development and operations of BASIS Charter Schools in Louisiana
Provides quality training for early education providers
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 34 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 Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MAXINE GIARDINA CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THIBODAUX VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds NSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LA CTR WMN GOVT INC GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BEN MEYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds Upside Downs Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TIGER ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Zeringue Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · James J Buquet Jr Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Giardina Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Giardina Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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