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Casey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Youth Development$42kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$18kRecreation & Sports$11kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$8kAnimals$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CASA ROMANTICA$8,000
SHEA CENTER$7,500
MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO$6,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY$5,000
SAN CLEMENTE ROTARY FOUNDATION$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH$3,000
CASA TERESA$3,000
YOUR STORY MATTERS$2,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAN CLEMENTE MILITARY FAMILY OUTREA: $25 → 10%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.

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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$79k · 4 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$79k
$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+79%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue -28%
  • SC
    SAN CLEMENTE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +27% · 28% of their budget
  • MS
    MISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • SC
    SAN CLEMENTE URBAN FARMS
    one grant, 2021 · $8k

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.

1
Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
2
Santa Catalina Island Conservancy

The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…

3
Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Orange County provides a powerful voice and a meaningful connection for children who have experienced abuse, neglect and abandoment.

Civil Rights
4
Sonoma County Family Ymca

Sonoma county family ymca seeks to enhance the lives of all people through programs designed to develop spirit, mind and body. at the y, strengthening our community is our cause. we believe that positive, lasting personal and social change…

Human Services
5
San Gabriel Valley Ymca

The san gabriel valley ymca puts christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

6
Boys and Girls Club of Santa Monica Inc

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.

Youth Development
7
Boy Scouts of America 35 Marin Council

The marin council of the boy scouts of america, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation, is chartered by the boy scouts of america to promote the scouting program in marin county.

8
Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc

Girl Scouts of Central California South, Inc. is the largest girl leadership development organization in the Central Valley. Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

9
Coronanorco Family Ymca

The y works to strengthen our community through programming that helps develop members by concentrating on nurturing the potential of every child, teen and adult. the y has three areas of focus- youth development, healthy living, and…

Human Services
10
Girl Scouts of Northern California

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
11
California Inland Empire Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

12
Santos Manuel Student Union of Csusb

The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Assistance Ministries and the most unlike its peers is South Coast Sailing Team. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTYSOUTH COAST SAILING TEAM — $11,124 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH COAST SAILING TEAMBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH+1 more — $1,400 · Youth DevelopmentIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — $14,750 · OtherMISSION SAN JUAN CAPISTRANOSAN CLEMENTE URBAN FARMS — $7,750 · OtherSAN CLEMENTE URBAN FARMSYOUR STORY MATTERS — $2,000 · OtherSAN CLEMENTE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $18,100 · PhilanthropySAN CLEMENTE ROTARY F…FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $10,000 · PhilanthropyFAMILY ASSISTANCE MIN…CASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS — $8,000 · Arts & CulturePRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,500 · Arts & CultureJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $7,500 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO — $5,000 · AnimalsCASA TERESA INC — $3,000 · Human Services+1 more — $25 · Human ServicesUPLIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Health
Youth Development$50,524Other$39,500Philanthropy$28,100Arts & Culture$9,500Recreation & Sports$7,500Animals$5,000Human Services$3,025Health$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN CLEMENTE ROTARY FOUNDATION INC — $18,100 over 6y, 28% of budgetSOUTH COAST SAILING TEAM — $11,124 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA ROMANTICA CULTURAL CENTER & GARDENS — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJF SHEA THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC FKA FRAN JOSWICK THERAP RIDING CTR INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SANTA ANA ZOO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPLIFT YOUTH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAGUNA BEACH — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA TERESA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRETEND CITY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ORANGE COUNTY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY FEET INITIATIVE — $1,400 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Hall Charitable Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Samueli Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Casey Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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 Casey Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Casey Family Foundation 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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