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Casler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| CRUSADERS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE | $5,000 |
| ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY | $4,500 |
| CARPENTERS PLACE | $3,000 |
| MILLIGAN COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS | $3,000 |
| CYPRUS AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| INT'L DISASTER EMERGENCY SERVICE INC | $2,000 |
| LIFE NETWORK OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +30%
- RRROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +2%
- PSPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- COCARITAS OF AUSTINone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
- PLPOLO LIBRARY FOUNDATION NFPNgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +64%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
Through christian love and excellence, we are dedicated to providing a fulfilling lifestyle and promoting independence to those we serve.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.
To provide opportunities for low and moderate-income households in southeastern minnesota counties to secure housing that is decent and affordable.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Life Network of Southern Illinois. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 37 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CYPRUS AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLIGAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Bible Translators ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds POLO HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds POLO LIBRARY FOUNDATION NFPN ↗
- Who funds Life Network of Southern Illinois ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BRETHREN HOME ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONS OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
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
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 Casler 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.
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.