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Caspe 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.

$52k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Caspe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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 arriving13$50k38%
FY20238$46k50%
FY20228$29k25%
FY202111$30k55%
FY20209$81k11%
FY201913$39k46%
FY201813$65k46%
FY201715$81kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$214kReligion$58kHealth$43kArts & Culture$41kHuman Services$23kRecreation & Sports$20kPhilanthropy$20kInternational$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
SC
DC
FL

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 Center for Early Education$117,66060%
The Contemporary Jewish Museum$40,00030%
Otis College of Art and Design$30,00020%
The Spine Institute Foundation$25,000214%
Oakwood School$25,00030%
Temple Isaiah$23,9515n/a
The Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County$23,50080%
Brentwood School$12,87020%
Congregation Beth Shalom$12,5004n/a
Camp Ramah in the Berkshires Inc$10,00040%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Early Education: $117,660 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Contemporary Jewish Museum: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOtis College of Art and Design: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spine Institute Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetOakwood School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County: $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBrentwood School: $12,870 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Ramah in the Berkshires Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbraham Joshua Heschel School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTower Cancer Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilverlake Independent Jewish Community Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPablove Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMission High Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetChildhood Leukemia Foundation Inc: $135 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKids Wish Network Inc: $85 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Relief Network Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirefighters Support Foundation Inc: $50 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 21.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Federation Council of Greater La · Fjc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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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About Caspe Foundation

How much does Caspe Foundation give?
Caspe Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $51,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Caspe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Religion (14%), Health (10%).
Who are Caspe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Center for Early Education ($118k), The Contemporary Jewish Museum ($40k), Otis College of Art and Design ($30k).
Does Caspe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Caspe 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 Caspe Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, Jewish Federation Council of Greater La.
Where is Caspe Foundation based?
Caspe Foundation is based in IL.

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 46 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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