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Caspersen Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20212025.

Animals$7.6MEducation$1.0MOther$1.6M
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $510k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$150,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT$1,000,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
ORCF - REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY$250,000
SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT$250,000
NATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY$150,000
ORCF - KEY WEST HUMANE SOCIETY$90,000
ORCF - THIS IS THE DOG$90,000
ORCF - FLORIDA KEYS HUMANE SOCIETY$90,000
ORCF - THIS IS THE DOG$90,000
REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 14%SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT: $1.0M → 9%CRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT: $1.0M → 13%KEY WEST HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 13%THIS IS THE DOG: $250k → 15%CASHIERS HIGHLANDS: $250k → 13%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1.0M → 9%NATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY: $1.0M → 9%SATCHEL'S LAST RESORT: $250k → 9%CRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE: $250k → 13%ORCF - REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY: $250k → 13%REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY: $25k → 15%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $500k → 9%NATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY: $150k → 9%SATCHELS LAST RESORT INC: $10k → 9%CRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT: $25k → 13%FLORIDA KEYS HUMANE SOCIETY: $250k → 13%DOGS IN CRISIS: $10k → 15%SATCHELS LAST RESORT INC: $10k → 9%ORF - THIS IS THE DOG: $250k → 13%DOGS IN CRISIS: $10k → 15%ORCF - KEY WEST HUMANE SOCIETY: $90k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $1.5M → 15%ORCF - FLORIDA KEYS HUMANE SOCIETY: $90k → 13%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI: $571k → 15%ORCF - THIS IS THE DOG: $90k → 13%ORCF - THIS IS THE DOG: $90k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 6 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$7.3M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
0%

Still filing today

100%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $860k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationOther

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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +26%
  • CA
    CRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +111% · 75% of their budget
  • SL
    SATCHELS LAST RESORT
    3× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +187% · 44% of their budget

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -8%
  • TI
    THIS IS THE DOG INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • OT
    ORF - THIS IS THE DOG
    one grant, 2021 · $250k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Pet Rescue Miami Inc
Animals
2
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
3
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
4
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
5
Raskels Rescue
Animals
6
Forgotten Tails Animal Rescue Inc

Saving dogs

Animals
7
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
8
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
9
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
10
Pet Rescue Alliance Inc

Rescue animals from shelter

Animals
11
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
12
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Greater Miami-Dade for Pocta Aap and the most unlike its peers is The University of Florida Foundation Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $2,071,380 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAPBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,500,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYCRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT — $1,275,000 · AnimalsCRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORTSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $1,270,000 · AnimalsSATCHELS LAST RESORTNATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY — $1,150,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY+3 more — $320,000 · AnimalsORF - THIS IS THE DOG — $250,000 · OtherORF - THIS IS THE …Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant r…KEY WEST HUMANE SOCIETY — $250,000 · OtherKEY WEST HUMANE SO…ORCF - REDLAND DOG SANCTUARY — $250,000 · OtherORCF - REDLAND DOG…FLORIDA KEYS HUMANE SOCIETY — $250,000 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS HUMAN…ORCF - THIS IS THE DOG — $180,000 · OtherORCF - THIS IS THE…ORCF - FLORIDA KEYS HUMANE SOCIETY — $90,000 · OtherORCF - FLORIDA KEY…ORCF - KEY WEST HUMANE SOCIETY — $90,000 · OtherORCF - KEY WEST HU…+1 more — $40,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…
Animals$7,586,380Other$1,650,000Education$1,000,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP — $2,071,380 over 2y, 19% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT — $1,275,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetSATCHELS LAST RESORT — $1,270,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY — $1,150,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOGS IN CRISIS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetFLORIDA POODLE RESCUE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
  • Who funds CRITTER ADOPTION AND RESCUE EFFORT
  • Who funds SATCHELS LAST RESORT
  • Who funds NATIONAL HUMANE EDUCATION SOCIETY
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THIS IS THE DOG INC
  • Who funds DOGS IN CRISIS INC
  • Who funds FLORIDA POODLE RESCUE INC

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.

Network for GoodDC10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Caspersen Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get 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 · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Caspersen Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Caspersen Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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