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Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$857kPublic Safety & Disaster$475kHousing & Shelter$355kReligion$305kInternational$30kEducation$25kHuman Services$22kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$400,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$400,000
MIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH$300,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CROSS INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 13%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $300k → 15%IHM SISTERS: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%ACTION FOR BRIDGEPORT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 9%GESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 17%CLIMATE CENTRAL: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $400k → 19%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $30k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%GESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $5k → 17%ALZHEIMER ASSOC: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $20k → 14%GESU CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $5k → 17%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%ALZHEIMER ASSOC: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 14%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $20k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $30k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $5k → 15%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $10k → 17%SOUTH FLORIDA VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $10k → 17%SOUTH FLORIDA VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $10k → 17%MIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $300k → 15%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $10k → 17%ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI: $300k → 15%MIAMI ARCHDIOCESE: $30k → 15%MIAMI ARCHDIOSE: $25k → 15%MIAMI ARCHDIOSE: $10k → 15%ABCD: $5k → 15%ABCD: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
MD
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+115%

Still filing today

31%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalScience & TechReligionEducationOther

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

  • CH
    CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +104%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +202%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI
    one grant, 2024 · $300k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • R
    REGENTS
    one grant, 2018 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

5
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

7
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
10
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
11
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $400,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $355,000 · OtherCAMILLUS HOUSE INCMD ANDERSON CANCER CTR — $330,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CTRARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMI — $300,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF MIAMIUniversity of Michigan — $90,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES — $75,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING — $60,000 · Other+10 more — $148,000 · Other+10 moreMIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC — $300,000 · HealthMIAMI FOUNDATION F…Norwalk Hospital Foundation — $61,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital F…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 · InternationalCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $10,000 · Science & TechCross International Inc — $5,000 · ReligionALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC — $5,000 · Education
Other$1,758,000Health$361,000International$25,000Science & Tech$10,000Religion$5,000Education$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC — $355,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC — $300,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $90,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $61,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCross International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds MIAMI FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH INC
  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC
  • Who funds Cross International Inc
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 100%
  • Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc100% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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