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Cascella Family Charitable Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$203k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$564kHuman Services$366kEnvironment$27kFood & Nutrition$25kEducation$23kYouth Development$17kCommunity Improvement$11kEmployment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLATIRONS CHURCH$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
SPARK HOPE AUTOMOTIVE$25,000
FAMILIES OF CHARACTER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ORO VALLEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE$10,000
KINGS KIDS VILLAGE ENCOURAGERS UNLT$10,000
PIONEERS USA$9,000
JEREMIAHS CALL MINISTRIES$5,000
ENCOURAGERS UNLIMITED KINGDOM KIDS$5,000
BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP$1,000
ST FRANCIS OF ASSISSI$1,000
UTE MEADOWS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$212
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $347k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $16k → 8%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $15k → 8%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $15k → 8%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $15k → 8%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $42k → 7%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $10k → 8%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $36k → 7%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $10k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 11%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $35k → 7%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $10k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 11%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $10k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 11%FAMILIES OF CHARACTER: $10k → 8%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 11%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $26k → 7%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $2k → 11%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $25k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $25k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $20k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $20k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 21 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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17

Total granted

$1.0M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

33%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyEnvironmentPublic BenefitHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    SparkHope Automotive
    9× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +257%
  • C
    CROSSPURPOSE
    4× · 2019–2022 · $11k · revenue +236%
  • PT
    PEDAL THE CAUSE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IF
    Impact Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $27k · revenue -24%
  • NK
    NOCO KIDS ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
3
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
4
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
5
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

6
Christians for Biblical Equality

See schedule o.christians for biblical equality (cbe), www.cbeinternational.org, is a 501c3 nonprofit organization comprised of individuals, churches, colleges, seminaries, and organizations, representing more than 100 different…

7
Colorado State Fire Chiefs

The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…

Public Safety & Disaster
8
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
9
Chief Executives for Corporate Purpose Inc

Chief executives for corporate purpose (cecp) is the only business counsel and network dedicated to driving measurable returns on purpose. we promote responsible purpose-driven business as it increases customer loyalty, builds employee…

Philanthropy
10
Roseman University of Health Sciences

Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…

Education
11
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

12
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bible Study Fellowship and the most unlike its peers is Impact Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH — $255,000 · OtherROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCHFLATIRONS CHURCH — $105,000 · OtherFLATIRONS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORO VALLEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE — $45,000 · OtherORO VALLEY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENEPIONEERS — $40,000 · OtherPIONEERSIndividual grant recipient — $35,000 · OtherENCOURAGERS UNLIMITED KINGDOM KIDS — $35,000 · OtherENCOURAGERS UNLIMITED — $34,000 · Other+26 more — $145,317 · Other+26 moreSparkHope Automotive — $254,025 · Human ServicesSparkHope AutomotiveFAMILIES OF CHARACTER — $110,750 · Human ServicesFAMILIES OF CHARACTER+1 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesImpact Foundation — $26,500 · Public BenefitCROSSPURPOSE — $11,000 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $8,000 · EnvironmentTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $500 · PhilanthropyCornell University — $5,000 · Education
Other$744,317Human Services$372,275Public Benefit$26,500Community Improvement$11,000Environment$8,000Philanthropy$5,500Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSparkHope Automotive — $254,025 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILIES OF CHARACTER — $110,750 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetImpact Foundation — $26,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetCROSSPURPOSE — $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCornell University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICE CHAPLAINS — $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEMMANNE MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SparkHope Automotive
  • Who funds FAMILIES OF CHARACTER
  • Who funds Impact Foundation
  • Who funds CROSSPURPOSE
  • Who funds COLORADO OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
  • Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE
  • Who funds THE PUJOLS FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Cornell University
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN POLICE CHAPLAINS
  • Who funds EMMANNE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
  • Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Cascella Family Charitable Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cascella Family Charitable Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to Cascella Family Charitable Fdn 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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