Louisiana · Nonprofit
GARDERE INITIATIVE INC
GARDERE INITIATIVE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,850 to it, the largest being THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION ($265,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $482k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $506k
- Net assets
- $282k
What Gardere Initiative Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to provide children and families throughout the Gardere Community with fundamental services and resources that are ultimately unavailable to them. Through spiritual intervention, local partnerships and selfless volunteering, we touch the lives of many individuals that strive for the same opportunities as surrounding Baton Rouge areas, to learn, to grow and to succeed. To address substance abuse and other social ills in the Gardere area that adversely affect the children, neighboring subdivisions and the city in general through collaboration, partnership and Spiritual intervention
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Meals served (days of all holiday programs) We provide a substantial snack during the afterschool and holiday programs. Breakfast and lunch are provided during the 8-week summer program. We also provide meals at all of our annual events. (Served 18,220 Meals)
$10,059 spent$10,059 earned by the program2% of program spendingAverage Daily Attendance in Afterschool and Summer Programs 68 Children and 13 Parents, 87
$33,000 spent$33,000 earned by the program8% of program spendingAmount saved on childcare for families: (10$/hr): Children from 3 years and up attend our several programs ensuring parents that their children are in a healthy and safe environment. Helping families get kids into school. Impacted 55 Children.
$43,000 spent$43,000 earned by the program10% of program spendingYouth Employed- : We provide a 9-month afterschool program, 8-weeks summer program and activities for major holidays when children are out of school.
$58,134 spent$58,134 earned by the program13% of program spendingPartnerships with ___ organizations, extending the opportunity for _50__ - Youth are exposed to college experience while experiencing the gift of mentorship with law enforcement professionals. Within the past year we developed partnerships with ___ organizations, extending the opportunity for ______ - Youth are exposed to college experience while experiencing the gift of mentorship with law enforcement professionals. 50 Partners for 91 Youth
$58,500 spent$58,500 earned by the program14% of program spendingRent/Utilities/Healthcare, Through a funding from Capitol Area United Way, we are able to assist families with rent, utilities, and healthcare. -Service Hours (connecting youth to caring adults). Students are LSU and Southern University as well as community adults interact with our middle and high school students during the 9-month afterschool program and 8-week summer program. 540 hours/week - Increasing physical activity/safe access to outdoors: 240 Hours 2552 Hours
$61,743 spent$61,743 earned by the program14% of program spendingHelping Adults with Financial Literacy . Funding from the Wilson Foundation helps us to provide financial literacy and support for emergencials to Asset Limited, Income-Constrained, Employed families to gain stable incomes. 381.6 Hours
$60,000 spent$60,000 earned by the program14% of program spendingBrought 80 children to two weeks of swim lessons. - Swim Lessons
$18,010 spent$18,010 earned by the program4% of program spendingResource Referrals: Throughout year, estimate: the movement of new people moving into the community that use our services to navigate the court, social service, school systemes and others as needed. About 317 Helping families get kids into schools: we assist newly arrived families to enroll their children in the EBRPSS. Our staff, Martha Espinoza was recently certified via EBRPSS to be a registered -
$90,000 spent$90,000 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $432,446.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $61k to $175k (+189%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 11% · 2024 74% · 2025 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GARDERE INITIATIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $100 → $195k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GARDERE INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GARDERE INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GARDERE INITIATIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 60% · 2022 49% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of GARDERE INITIATIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of GARDERE INITIATIVE INC's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GARDERE INITIATIVE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GARDERE INITIATIVE INC?
- GARDERE INITIATIVE INC (Louisiana) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $505,850 to it, the largest being THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION ($265,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GARDERE INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $505,850 in grants to GARDERE INITIATIVE INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GARDERE INITIATIVE INC?
- THE HUEY & ANGELINA WILSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $265,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GARDERE INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing