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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES$25,000
MILES CHRISTI$25,000
FOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION$25,000
BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY$20,000
BERKELEY INSTITUTE$20,000
LEONINE FORUM$15,000
INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE GRIEF CARE$7,500
PHILANTROPY ROUNDTABLE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $20k → 10%INNER-CITY SCHOLARCHIPS IN: $20k → 11%INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $20k → 17%LEONINE FORUM: $15k → 14%MILES CHRISTI: $10k → 8%FOCUS: $25k → 7%THOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE: $25k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $25k → 8%BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%ST RITA'S SCHOOL: $15k → 11%INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $10k → 14%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $20k → 17%BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $20k → 14%MILES CHRISTI: $10k → 8%FOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION: $25k → 7%THOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE: $20k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $25k → 8%BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $11k → 10%ST RITA'S SCHOOL: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $15k → 17%BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $20k → 14%MILES CHRISTI: $10k → 8%WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $20k → 8%BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%ST RITA'S SCHOOL: $15k → 11%BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $15k → 14%MILES CHRISTI: $10k → 8%WITHERSPOON INSTITUTE: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $20k → 8%BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%ST RITA'S SCHOOL: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS: $15k → 17%BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $15k → 14%MILES CHRISTI: $10k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $15k → 8%ST RITA'S SCHOOL: $15k → 11%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS: $15k → 17%BECKET FUND FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: $15k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $15k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS: $15k → 17%INSTITURE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE: $15k → 17%MILES CHRISTI: $25k → 11%MILES CHRISTI: $25k → 11%MILES CHRISTI: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DE
KS
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 30 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+54%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationSocial ScienceHealthCivil RightsReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +207%
  • TB
    The Becket Fund
    8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +81%
  • TB
    THE BERKELEY INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IS
    INNER-CITY SCHOLARCHIPS IN
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • WF
    WYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -28%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies

The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…

Religion
2
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…

Religion
6
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
7
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
8
Instituto De Estudios Teologicos

Conference

Education
9
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
10
Foundational Questions Institute
Philanthropy
11
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
12
Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

To promote the teaching of the Western Tradition, its relationship to other traditions and its importance in the modern era, through educational courses, resources and teacher training.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILES CHRISTI: $120,000 · OtherMILES CHRISTIFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: $90,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTSST RITA'S SCHOOL: $88,500 · OtherST RITA'S SCHOOLTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC: $80,000 · OtherTHE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INCMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY: $30,000 · OtherFREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC: $30,000 · OtherINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $25,000 · OtherFOCUS MISSION FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Other+18 more: $137,000 · Other+18 moreTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES: $140,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIESWitherspoon Institute Inc: $115,000 · EducationWitherspoon Institute IncTHE BERKELEY INSTITUTE: $81,000 · EducationTHE BERKELEY INSTITUTEINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE…+4 more: $18,950 · EducationThe Becket Fund: $110,000 · Social ScienceThe Becke…+1 more: $1,000 · Social ScienceINSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC: $70,000 · HealthINSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE GRIEF CARE: $14,500 · HealthTHE LEONINE FORUM INC: $35,000 · ReligionSOPHIA INSTITUTE: $5,000 · ReligionINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $22,000 · Civil RightsIndependent Women's Forum: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHOMAS MORE SOCIETY: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$625,500Education$379,950Social Science$111,000Health$84,500Religion$40,000Civil Rights$32,000Crime & Legal$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds Witherspoon Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE BERKELEY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE ON RELIGION AND PUBLIC LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PATIENTS' RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEONINE FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF REPRODUCTIVE GRIEF CARE ↗
  • Who funds LIFE PERSPECTIVES ↗
  • Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FEMINISTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WYA Foundation Inc dba World Youth Alliance ↗
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
  • Who funds Augustine Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE ↗

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 C…Chiaroscuro FoundationMercy Works FoundationThe Lynde and Harry B…Bradley Impact Fund I…National Philanthropi…The Community Foundat…Robert and Bernarda N…The Moran FoundationThe Catholic Foundati…The Rotary Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Casillas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Casillas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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