· Private foundation
Cassner Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k29 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HCA Building Fund | $60,000 |
| Southern State Community College | $24,000 |
| Highland County Society | $15,000 |
| Alternatives to Violence Center | $5,000 |
| Southern Ohio Pregnancy Center | $4,000 |
| Shawnee State University | $3,500 |
| Ohio State University | $3,500 |
| Georgia Southern University | $3,500 |
| Embry-Riddle Aeronutical University | $3,500 |
| Southern State Community College | $3,500 |
| University of Findlay | $3,500 |
| Wilmington College | $3,500 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $3,500 |
| Wilmington College | $3,500 |
| Liberty University | $3,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Cassner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHILLSBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY8× · 2017–2025 · $489k · revenue +246%
- SOSOUTHERN OHIO PREGNANCY CENTER INC7× · 2018–2026 · $36k · revenue +71%
- CUCedarville University4× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- HDHIGHLAND DISTRICT HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PCPaint Creek Joint EMSFire Deptone grant, 2019 · $9k
- SJSt Jude Children's Researchone grant, 2024 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Otterbein University is an inclusive community dedicated to educating the whole person in the context of humane values. Our mission is to prepare graduates to think deeply and broadly, to engage locally and globally, and to advance their…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 67 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HILLSBORO CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Wilmington College ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN OHIO PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHAFFER PARK BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds University of Dayton ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Marietta College ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Heidelberg University ↗
- Who funds Ohio Northern University ↗
- Who funds The University of Findlay ↗
- Who funds ALMA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · A K Stephenson Fdn Char Tr Agy · The Austin E Knowlton Foundation Inc · The Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges · The Dayton Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cassner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cassner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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