· Private foundation
The Mary & Al Danos Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $625k
- $250k+2 grants · $820k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY | $520,000 |
| ED WHITE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $125,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA | $106,400 |
| TERREBONNE CHURCHES UNITED FOODBANK | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $98,500 |
| A PLACE OF RESTORATION | $75,000 |
| BAYOU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| HOPE EXTREME | $55,000 |
| WESTSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $32,662 |
| FRIENDS OF BEYOND THE BELL | $25,000 |
| CASA LAFOURCHE | $13,500 |
| FIRM FOUNDATION OF HOUMA | $10,200 |
| FLETCHER TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ONE DAY AT A TIME CLUB | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $299k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NSNICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M
- TRTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE DIOCESE OF HOUMA THIBODAUX3× · 2019–2022 · $1.1M
- EWED WHITE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2018–2024 · $663k
Funded once
- VCVANDEBILT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $150k
- CAChildrens Advocacy Center - Hope Houseone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +4%
- SMST MATTHEW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
Agency delivers outpatient mental health counseling to at risk youth and families in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana.
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
The organization was created by the terrebonne parish district attorneys office to assist in providing at risk children with advocacy and counseling services. the organization is supported by grants from state and local governments &…
The mission of the Community Foundation of Acadiana is to build legacies and improve communities by connecting generous people to the causes they care about.
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
The mission of the children's advocacy network is to help heal and champion abused and neglected children throughout central louisiana
alexis foundation is a Christian organization with the purpose of assisting Maison Des Enfants De Dieu (Hereafter "Maison")in its efforts to find, rescue, feed, house and care for orphaned, abandoned and neglected children, and support the…
The Foundation is committed to preserving the cultural and architectural heritage of Louisiana through advocacy, stewardship, and education and encourages community participation through a number of preservation programs.
To build chapels to give inmates a place dedicated only to worship and faith-based programs.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Bayou Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds A PLACE OF RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds CASA OF LAFOURCHE INC ↗
- Who funds Terrebonne Churches United Foodbank Inc ↗
- Who funds Childrens Advocacy Center - Hope House ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YORKSHIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE EXTREME INC ↗
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 Greater New Orleans Foundation · Bayou Community Foundation · Danos Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · James J Buquet Jr Family Foundation · Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mary & Al Danos Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary & Al Danos Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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