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Castelli Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$459k
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $1k → 9%SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $7k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $1k → 12%WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $1k → 13%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%ALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $1k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $3k → 14%EDINBORO UNIVERSITY: $2k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2k → 16%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA: $1k → 13%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 17%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1k → 8%SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $4k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $1k → 12%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $1k → 16%WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY: $1k → 19%SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THIEL COLLEGE: $1k → 13%INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 10%POINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $3k → 10%CLARION UNIVERSITY OF PA: $1k → 11%CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA: $2k → 12%SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $5k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $4k → 10%SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $2k → 10%CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%CHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%CHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
SC
DC
MS
GA
FL
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 26 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
207

Total granted

$128k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +44%
  • SETON HILL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +35%
  • SV
    SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Delaware Valley University

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…

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8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
10
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Washington & Jefferson College; the most unlike its peers is Savannah College of Art and DesignInc. 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 280 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
39/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $19,400 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITY+180 more: $272,500 · Other+180 moreUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,800 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG…SETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $10,150 · EducationSETON HILL UNIVERSITYSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationSAINT VINCENT COLLEGEDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $8,700 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF …CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $4,200 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITYCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · EducationCHATHAM UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2,500 · Education+12 more: $14,400 · Education+12 more
Other$291,900Education$74,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HILL UNIVERSITY: $10,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT VINCENT COLLEGE: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $8,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT PARK UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGANNON UNIVERSITY: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIATA COLLEGE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIEL COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Carroll University: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds POINT PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗

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.

Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship FundWV15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Phyllis a Beneke Scholarship Fund · Albert a Christ Scholarship Fund 1403 · Scott Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Ibm International Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Eqt Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Castelli Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Castelli Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 1% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 280 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $51k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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