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Caswell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$402k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Caswell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionEducationEnvironmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$188k27%
FY202411$313k9%
FY202312$237k25%
FY20226$108k17%
FY202110$228k50%
FY20206$125kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$305kEnvironment$240kEducation$206kRecreation & Sports$139kHuman Services$108kHealth$91kFood & Nutrition$73kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Caswell Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends Forever$305,00068%
University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated$150,00060%
Mystic River Watershed Association Inc$150,00061%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc$108,00060%
The Trustees of Reservations$90,00040%
American Diabetes Association$55,00030%
Digger Foods Inc$48,00037%
Colorado State University Foundation$25,00010%
Lakes Region Food Pantry Inc$25,00024%
The Sharon Academy Inc$20,00020%
Edra Toth Foundation$5,0001n/a
Turtle Rescue League Inc$5,00014%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($213k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caswell Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends Forever: $305,000 over 6y, 7.9% of budgetUniversity of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMystic River Watershed Association Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc: $108,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDigger Foods Inc: $48,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetColorado State University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Region Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Sharon Academy Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTurtle Rescue League Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Caswell Foundation

How much does Caswell Foundation give?
Caswell Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $188,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Caswell Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Environment (20%), Education (17%).
Who are Caswell Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Friends Forever ($305k), University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated ($150k), Mystic River Watershed Association Inc ($150k).
Does Caswell Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Caswell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Caswell Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Caswell Foundation based?
Caswell Foundation is based in NH.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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