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Cassiopeia 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

International$2.5MEducation$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$931kFood & Nutrition$923kPhilanthropy$889kEnvironment$535kArts & Culture$309kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Haverford College$250,000
Blue Ridge Area Food Bank$150,000
Friends of Dragon Run$150,000
Saint Annes Belfield School$100,000
Martha Jefferson Hospital$100,000
Milwaukee School of Engineering$25,000
University of Pennsylvania$25,000
Virginia PointtoPoint Foundation$20,000
Temple Gwathmey Foundation$15,333
Piedmont Virginia Community College$5,500
Blue Ridge Abortion Fund$750
The Red Tent Fund$750
Charlottesville High School$500
02The need
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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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND INC: $10k → 9%The Red Tent Fund: $750 → 14%THOMAS JEFFERSON AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $70k → 8%JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING: $110k → 8%SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY: $30k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WI
NY
OR
OH
PA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Cassiopeia Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Cassiopeia Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 9 repeat orgs$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
61

Total granted

$3.7M
$6.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+15%

Still filing today

56%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $302k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IA
    INVEST APPALACHIA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +602% · 31% of their budget
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +28%
  • GR
    GARTH ROAD PRESERVATION INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $181k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FREEDOM FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue +6%
  • CC
    CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $500k
  • VD
    VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION
    one grant, 2020 · $350k

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.

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Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation

The mission of vt-arc is to extend the impact of the virginia tech research and innovation enterprise, delivering superior analytic and technology solutions to government and non-government customers.

Science & Tech
2
Vcu Investment Management Company

To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…

Education
3
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
4
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
5
Virginia Community Action Partnership Inc

Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…

Human Services
6
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
7
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation

Vipc grows and diversifies virginia's economy by investing in and accelerating innovation commercialization and entrepreneurship.

Science & Tech
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
9
The Commonwealth Institute for

To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.

Public Benefit
10
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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11
Alliance for the Shenandoah Valley

Alliance for the shenandoah valley informs and engages people to protect the natural resources, cultural heritages, and rural character of our region.

Community Improvement
12
Virginia Agribusiness Council

Represent the agriculture, forestry, and agribusiness community in virginia.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Social ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Community Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Pregnancy Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportSenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local Food System Organizat…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%22%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%55%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr15%11%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/65
the rest of the field
13%
6,445/50,403

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.

05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 83 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
40/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,750,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLS — $500,000 · OtherCHARLOTTESVILLE CITY SCHOOLSALBEMARLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $500,000 · OtherALBEMARLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATION — $350,000 · OtherVIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND RECREATIONSaint Annes Belfield School — $300,000 · OtherSaint Annes Belfield SchoolBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $300,000 · OtherBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INCCleveland Clinic Foundation — $250,000 · OtherCultivate Charlottesville — $223,250 · Other+36 more — $1,290,864 · Other+36 moreTHE FREEDOM FUND — $2,250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FREEDOM FUNDGARTH ROAD PRESERVATION INC — $181,242 · PhilanthropyGARTH ROAD PRESERVATION IN…CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $160,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION A…International Neighbors Inc — $100,150 · Philanthropy+3 more — $55,350 · PhilanthropyNEW VENTURE FUND — $833,333 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDINVEST APPALACHIA INC — $500,000 · EnvironmentINVEST APPALACHIA…INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL CON…Friends of Dragon Run Inc — $150,000 · EnvironmentFriends of Dragon…NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $75,000 · Environment+3 more — $10,350 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 · Community ImprovementCALVERT IMPACT CAPITAL INC — $187,182 · Community ImprovementCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $25,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $5,875 · Community ImprovementCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $325,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC — $30,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 · EducationTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE — $25,000 · EducationSTU-COMM INC — $25,000 · EducationMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $25,000 · EducationStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri — $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRONT PORCH CVILLE — $118,200 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH VALLEY ART CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBEVERLEY STREET STUDIO SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $125 · Arts & CultureTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE — $180,000 · HealthMARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC — $50,000 · Health+1 more — $950 · Health
Other$5,464,114Philanthropy$2,746,742Environment$1,868,683Community Improvement$518,057Education$505,000Arts & Culture$448,325Health$330,950

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FREEDOM FUND — $2,250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $833,333 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINVEST APPALACHIA INC — $500,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE — $325,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATION CAUCUS FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE — $300,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC — $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStone Barns Restoration Corp DBA Stone Barns Center for Food & Agri — $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCultivate Charlottesville — $223,250 over 1y, 18% of budgetCALVERT IMPACT CAPITAL INC — $187,182 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGARTH ROAD PRESERVATION INC — $181,242 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE — $180,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $160,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL FOOD HUB INC — $150,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetFriends of Dragon Run Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER — $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC — $132,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC — $110,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc — $100,150 over 2y, 19% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS — $70,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE AGENCY — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIS LONG FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE MINISTRY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHING FELLOWS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE GARRISON INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTANDEM FRIENDS SCHOOL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTU-COMM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSIDE BY SIDE VA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMILWAUKEE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY ART CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBEVERLEY STREET STUDIO SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE STAUNTON AUGUSTA ART CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetTOY LIFT CHARITIES — $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC — $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNER COMMUNITY CAPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC — $950 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Charlottesville Area …S&P Global Foundation…The Genan FoundationThe Oak Hill FundThe J & E Berkley Fou…Caplin FoundationThe Charles Fund IncOakwood Foundation Ch…Perry Foundation IncManning Family Founda…United Way of Greater…The Hartfield Fdn Inc…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA61.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Genan Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · Perry Foundation Inc · Manning Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42

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 Cassiopeia 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Cassiopeia Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Cassiopeia 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 83 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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