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Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%ALZHEIMER ASSOC: $5k → 17%MD ANDERSON CANCER CTR: $50k → 16%CAMILLUS HOUSE: $30k → 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: $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%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%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
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

MI
NY
OH
NJ
CT
MD
TX
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • CH
    CAMILLUS HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +104%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2017–2023 · $90k · revenue +202%
  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2018–2023 · $61k · revenue +6%

Funded once

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

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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,…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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 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. 8 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & TechALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC: $5,000 · EducationCross International Inc: $5,000 · Religion
Other$1,758,000Health$361,000International$25,000Science & Tech$10,000Education$5,000Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Cross International Inc ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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

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 Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Marabeth Causey Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 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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