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Causecast Foundation
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA I | $21,838 |
| St Jude | $18,063 |
| ABLE WORKS | $15,082 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIO | $8,325 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of F | $8,038 |
| CMC INITIATIVE INC | $7,500 |
| The Humane Society | $6,290 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION DESERT | $5,637 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN AR | $5,509 |
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 (FY17–19, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +60% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 27 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2018 · $292k · revenue +46%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2017–2020 · $58k · revenue +98%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $54k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- ELELYSE LAKRITZ WEINBAUM AND GAVEN LAKRITZ RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $69k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $53k · revenue +105%
- VCVail Christian School Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +57%
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.
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area and the most unlike its peers is Forall Theater. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
191 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. 191 of the 233 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE VIVINT GIVEBACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vail Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds STOREHOUSE FOR TEACHERS D/B/A THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ABLE WORKS ↗
- Who funds Stand Together Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds BREM FOUNDATION TO DEFEAT BREAST CANCER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY 4 ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds CMC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FONDOS UNIDOS DE PUERTO RICO INC & UNITED WAY PUERTO RICO ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds The John W Graham Emergency Shelter and Service Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECTHANDUP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KALAMAZOO MI ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF DUVAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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: America's Charities · United Way Worldwide · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Intuit Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Greater Horizons · Ibm International Foundation · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · The Buhl Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher 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 Causecast 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Manna Food Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
- Carolyn Stokes Day Nursery Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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