Minnesota · Private foundation
Casler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $866k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Casler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $57k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $51k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $48k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $51k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $54k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $47k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Ministries | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rock River Valley Pantry | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute | $15,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Milligan University | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good Samaritan Ministries | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rock River Valley Pantry | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| People Serving People Inc | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute | $15,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Carpenter's Place Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Milligan University | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Leukemia Research Foundation | $12,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pioneer Bible Translators | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Polo Historical Society | $2,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Caritas of Austin | $2,058 | 1 | 0% |
| Polo Library Foundation Nfpn | $2,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Life Network of Southern Illinois | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Brethren Home | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rockford Symphony Orchestras Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Rockford Public Library | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Missions of Hope International | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($128k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Casler Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · Edward Jones Foundation · Gloyd Family Foundation · Sjostrom & Sons Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Casler Foundation
- How much does Casler Foundation give?
- Casler Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $57,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Casler Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Health (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Casler Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Good Samaritan Ministries ($40k), Rock River Valley Pantry ($20k), People Serving People Inc ($19k).
- Does Casler Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Casler Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Casler Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Northern IL, Edward Jones Foundation, Gloyd Family Foundation.
- Where is Casler Foundation based?
- Casler Foundation is based in MN.
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