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Casillas 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.

$165k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
18
Organizations funded FY2023
28%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Casillas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationReligionCrime & LegalHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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
FY2024still arriving9$165k11%
FY202318$175k28%
FY202214$172k21%
FY202111$144k18%
FY202021$160k14%
FY201922$163k14%
FY201824$165k21%
FY201721$149kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$523kReligion$244kCivil Rights$235kHealth$98kCrime & Legal$52kPublic Benefit$25kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DE
KS
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Institute for Family Studies$140,00083%
Miles Christi$120,0008n/a
Witherspoon Institute Inc$115,00081%
The Becket Fund$110,00080%
Fellowship of Catholic University Students$90,0005n/a
The Berkeley Institute$81,00084%
The Institute on Religion and Public Life Inc$80,00051%
Institute for Patients' Rights Inc$70,00063%
The Leonine Forum Inc$35,00032%
Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund Inc$30,00032%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Casillas Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Institute for Family Studies: $140,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetWitherspoon Institute Inc: $115,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Berkeley Institute: $81,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetThe Institute on Religion and Public Life Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Patients' Rights Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetThe Leonine Forum Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFreedom of Conscience Defense Fund Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetIntercollegiate Studies Institute Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute for Justice: $22,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThomas More Society: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCardinal Newman Society for the Preservation of Catholic Hgr Ed: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLife Perspectives: $13,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIndependent Women's Forum: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThomas Aquinas College: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEthics and Public Policy Center Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeminists for Life of America Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship & Political Philosophy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAugustine Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSophia Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Philanthropy Roundtable: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Answers Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Association of Scholars Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Conservative: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBenedictine College: $1,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research: $1,000 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund IncCT23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Chiaroscuro Foundation · Mercy Works Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Robert and Bernarda Neal Foundation · The Moran Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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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How do I get to Casillas Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Casillas 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.

About Casillas Foundation

How much does Casillas Foundation give?
Casillas Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $165,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Casillas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Religion (19%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are Casillas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Institute for Family Studies ($140k), Miles Christi ($120k), Witherspoon Institute Inc ($115k).
Does Casillas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Casillas Foundation 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 Casillas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc, Chiaroscuro Foundation, Mercy Works Foundation.
Where is Casillas Foundation based?
Casillas Foundation is based in CA.

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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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