How much does Castele Family Foundation give?

Castele Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $76,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Castele Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (18%), Health (15%), Religion (15%).

Who are Castele Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lifeact ($26k), Greater Cleveland Food Bank Inc ($24k), St Ignatius High School of Cleveland ($19k).

Does Castele Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Castele 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 Castele Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Lozick Family Foundation, Community West Foundation.

Where is Castele Family Foundation based?

Castele Family Foundation is based in OH.

Castele Family Foundation

Castele Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$77k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$64kHealth$53kReligion$52kEducation$50kHuman Services$44kCrime & Legal$35kPhilanthropy$14kYouth Development$12kOther$0

02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$4k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
American Red Cross	$7,000
St Ignatius High School	$6,000
The Legal Aid Society	$5,000
LifeAct	$3,500
Youth Challenge	$3,000
Malachi House	$3,000
St Angela Merici Catholic Church	$3,000
Our Lady of the Seas Cath Church	$2,500
Hopewell	$2,000
Geauga Hunger Task Force	$2,000
Christ Child Society	$2,000
DAP Health Mobile Food Pantry	$2,000
St John the Baptist Catholic Church	$2,000
Cornerstone of Hope	$2,000
Two Foundation	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$268k · 36 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$268k

$69k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%

+12%

Still filing today

47%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

L
LIFEACT
5× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +11%
JC
JOURNEY CENTER FOR SAFETY AND HEALING
5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +54%
YC
YOUTH CHALLENGE
4× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +43%

Funded once

OL
Our Lady of the Seas Church
one grant, 2020 · $5k
DV
Domestic Violence Center
one grant, 2020 · $4k
PH
PROVIDENCE HOUSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +61%

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.

04Its field

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.

Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

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…

Human Services

House of New Hope Inc

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…

Human Services

The Homeless Families Foundation

The homeless families foundation educates and nurtures children while empowering families to achieve stable housing and self-sufficiency.

Human Services

West Ohio Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition

OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health

Mental Health Services for Homeless Persons Inc

Reaching out to adults and children in northeast ohio to end homelessness, prevent suicide, resolve behavioral health crises and overcome trauma

Human Services

Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health

Hope for Cleveland's Children

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Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

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…

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Focus On Youth Inc

Improve lives by providing trauma-responsive foster care, adoption, and behavioral health services that promote permanency, safety, and well-being for youth and families.

Human Services

Pathway Caring for Children

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.

Health

Faith Mission Inc

Housing & Shelter

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blessing House; 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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/43

Grantees still filing

29/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$205,500Health$50,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Human Services$25,750Crime & Legal$18,500Philanthropy$15,750Education$5,500

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.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH38.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Castele Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Castele Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home