South Carolina · Private foundation
Cassels Family Foundation
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.
- $622k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $221,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $34M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Cassels Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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 | 8 | $401k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $973k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $974k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $330k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.1M | 64% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $1.3M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $954k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cush Empowerment Group | $915,000 | 3 | 18% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Homeless No More Inc | $308,666 | 2 | 8% |
| Neighbors Together Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 9% |
| School Time Bible Ministries | $215,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Queens University of Charlotte | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Epworth | $115,000 | 2 | 84% |
| Chris Musgrove Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 26% |
| One Life Ministries Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 47% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cush Empowerment Group | $915,000 | 3 | 18% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $400,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Homeless No More Inc | $308,666 | 2 | 8% |
| Neighbors Together Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 9% |
| School Time Bible Ministries | $215,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Queens University of Charlotte | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fuller Center for Housing of McCormick Sc Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Epworth | $115,000 | 2 | 84% |
| Chris Musgrove Ministries Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 26% |
| One Life Ministries Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 47% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| American Heart Association Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Federation Center of the Blind | $50,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Providence Home | $41,347 | 1 | 6% |
| Child Evangelism Fellowship of Sc Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys Farm Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Ezekiel Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Christian Assistance Bridge | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Books in Every Bag | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cassels Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Toby Cassels Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Cassels Family Foundation
- How much does Cassels Family Foundation give?
- Cassels Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $622,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cassels Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Religion (13%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Cassels Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Cush Empowerment Group ($915k), United Way of the Midlands ($400k), Homeless No More Inc ($309k).
- Does Cassels Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cassels Family 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 Cassels Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, The Toby Cassels Foundation, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Cassels Family Foundation based?
- Cassels Family Foundation is based in SC.
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