Louisiana · Nonprofit
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,501,059 to it, the largest being GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 145
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Team Gleason Foundation does
Mission
(1)Help to provide individuals with neuro-muscular diseases or injuries with leading edge technology, equipment and services (2) Raise public awareness toward amyotrophic lateral sclerosis by providing & documenting life adventures for individuals with muscular diseases or injuries.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Helping deliver leading edge equipment, services and technology, the Team Gleason Foundation provides ALS patients with the tools to allow people living with ALS to communicate, interact, and live with purpose. Technology and equipment have advanced over the past decade but these services can be taken even further. The Foundation works with creative companies to develop voice creation and hands-free software and technology.The Foundation maintains contact with ALS families receiving specialized equipment and recycles the equipment to new patients when the equipment is no longer needed. In 2023, the approximate value of such equipment repurposed was $2,100,000. In addition, Voice Banking technology was provided to 1,571 patients valued at $2,200,000.For the second year in a row, Team Gleason was voted "Best Non-profit" in Gambit's best of new orleans issue.Team Gleason partnered with Tobii Dynavox, the world leader in assistive communication and the leading provider of technology for the ALS community, to increase access to assistive communications technology for people living with ALS to live purposeful lives. This partnership is focused on engaging the ALS community and…
$4,373,463 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,373,463.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.8M to $8.3M (−16%).
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 9% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Blair Casey
Executive director
Board chair
Paul Varisco Sr
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 53 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.5M.
25 of 145 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 145 funders by total. 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
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 76% · 2019 34% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 32% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
56% of TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 17 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
TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Gleason Family Trust · corp_trust
- Answer Als · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION?
- TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION (Louisiana) receives grants from 145 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,501,059 to it, the largest being GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($2,150,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 145 organizations giving $10,501,059 in grants to TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION?
- GAYLE AND TOM BENSON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 145 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