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Castele Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross | $7,000 |
| St Ignatius High School | $6,000 |
| The Legal Aid Society | $5,000 |
| LifeAct | $3,500 |
| Malachi House | $3,000 |
| St Angela Merici Catholic Church | $3,000 |
| Youth Challenge | $3,000 |
| Our Lady of the Seas Cath Church | $2,500 |
| Geauga Hunger Task Force | $2,000 |
| Hopewell | $2,000 |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Church | $2,000 |
| RAINN | $2,000 |
| Greater Cleveland Foodbank | $2,000 |
| DAP Health Mobile Food Pantry | $2,000 |
| Two Foundation | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LLIFEACT5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
- GCGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +10%
- JCJOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- OLOur Lady of the Seas Churchone grant, 2020 · $5k
- DVDomestic Violence Centerone grant, 2020 · $4k
- PHPROVIDENCE HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
It is our mission to demonstrate the love and compassion of jesus christ by protecting and enhancing the safety and well-being of persons from all backgrounds and across the continuum of life through the effective integration of the…
The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.
Everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food. Together with our partners, we provide nutritious food to those in need. We do this through collaborating with more than 100 partner agencies, which include emergency pantries, soup…
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
Reaching out to adults and children in northeast ohio to end homelessness, prevent suicide, resolve behavioral health crises and overcome trauma
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Improve lives by providing trauma-responsive foster care, adoption, and behavioral health services that promote permanency, safety, and well-being for youth and families.
Our mission is to help children and families realize the possibilities of their lives through foster care, adoption, and mental health. we serve over 1,700 children and families in 14 northeast ohio counties.
To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blessing House and the most unlike its peers is Oakhouse. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 LIFEACT ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds TRIALS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT OF OTTAWA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds The Council on Recovery ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW'S LENDING LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA COUNTY HOLIDAY BUREAU ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Community West Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · Giant Eagle Foundation · Connor Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · The Reuter 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 Castele Family Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.