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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 FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
31%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Cascella Family Charitable Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$203k36%
FY202413$167k31%
FY202312$132k33%
FY202212$153k33%
FY20219$135k22%
FY202010$118k40%
FY201910$86k30%
FY201814$100k50%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
AZ
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
SparkHope Automotive$254,02593%
Families of Character$110,75097%
Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene$45,0003n/a
Pioneers$40,0008n/a
Impact Foundation$26,500115%
Jeremiahs Call Ministries$20,0004n/a
Crosspurpose$11,00040%
Colorado Outward Bound School$8,00020%
Pedal the Cause$7,50050%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$6,0002n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Cascella Family Charitable Fdn by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
SparkHope Automotive$254,02593%
Families of Character$110,75097%
Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene$45,0003n/a
Pioneers$40,0008n/a
Impact Foundation$26,500115%
Jeremiahs Call Ministries$20,0004n/a
Crosspurpose$11,00040%
Colorado Outward Bound School$8,00020%
Pedal the Cause$7,50050%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$6,0002n/a
Cornell University$5,00010%
The Pujols Family Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Rocky Mountain Police Chaplains$4,00030%
Emmanne Ministries$2,00011%
Bible Study Fellowship$1,00010%
Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego$50010%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$50010%
Denver Presbyterian Church$5001n/a
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$35020%

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($625k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cascella Family Charitable Fdn supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCornell University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pujols Family Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cascella Family Charitable Fdn

How much does Cascella Family Charitable Fdn give?
Cascella Family Charitable Fdn reported 14 grants totaling $203,212 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cascella Family Charitable Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Human Services (31%), Environment (2%).
Who are Cascella Family Charitable Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: SparkHope Automotive ($254k), Families of Character ($111k), Oro Valley Church of the Nazarene ($45k).
Does Cascella Family Charitable Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cascella Family Charitable Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cascella Family Charitable Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Cascella Family Charitable Fdn based?
Cascella Family Charitable Fdn is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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