· Private foundation
Casten Family Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAP SCIENCE AND MATHS SCHOOL | $153,212 |
| FULBRIGHT COMMISSION | $38,498 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,612 |
| HINSDALE HIGH SCHOOL LEAP CLUB | $6,737 |
| MORTON ARBORETUM | $880 |
| SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO | $740 |
| WTTW | $400 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 54% of grant dollars ($1.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 46% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 46% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OAONE ACRE FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $407k · revenue +258%
- CPCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC5× · 2017–2022 · $207k · revenue +38%
- HSHACKLEY SCHOOL2× · 2017–2018 · $80k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- ISITALY SLOW FOODS FULBRIGHT PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $54k
- UDUNIVERSITA DI SCIENZE GASTONOMIone grant, 2018 · $39k
- TLThe Land Institutegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +105%
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.
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How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 88 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 ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
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- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CERGE-EI FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds PLEASANT HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF CHICAGOLAND WEST ↗
- Who funds HCS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BOULEVARD OF CHICAGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AFGHAN WOMEN ↗
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- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
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: The Dupage Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Casten Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Casten Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mad River Path Association: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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