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Investment Casting Institute

See schedule othe INVESTMENT CASTING INSTITUTE will market the investment casting industry and support its members by facilitating professional, academic, educational, and technical interest, and will provide a forum for advancement in technology and product quality for customers and manufacturers, while promoting free trade, fair…

$692k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of INVESTMENT CASTING INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $119k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $552k
$77,525
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY$203,531
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$93,822
TETHON CORPORATION$89,935
CONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC$87,050
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & ANALYSIS LLC$77,525
RANGEVIEW INC$45,136
FOUNDRY SUPPORT OPERATIONS LLC$41,255
INTREPID AUTOMATION$22,212
ALFRED UNIVERSITY$10,409
SHELLCAST INC$9,061
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $94k → 15%TETHON CORPORATION: $90k → 12%INTREPID AUTOMATION: $22k → 11%RANGEVIEW INC: $210k → 14%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $17k → 19%BARRON INDUSTRIES: $14k → 8%SHELLCAST INC: $19k → 15%MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $204k → 16%METALTEK INTERNATIONAL: $6k → 8%BESCAST INC: $6k → 9%PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & ANALYSIS LLC: $90k → 7%CONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC: $87k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $12k → 15%TETHON CORPORATION: $58k → 12%INTREPID AUTOMATION: $9k → 11%RANGEVIEW INC: $45k → 14%ALFRED UNIVERSITY: $10k → 19%SHELLCAST INC: $9k → 15%MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY: $133k → 16%FOUNDRY SUPPORT OPERATIONS LLC: $41k → 9%PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT & ANALYSIS LLC: $78k → 7%CONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC: $83k → 9%FOUNDRY SUPPORT OPERATIONS LLC: $32k → 9%CONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC: $8k → 9%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

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CA
NE
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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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$1.4M
$25k

Still filing today

10%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    2× · 2024–2025 · $337k
  • RI
    RANGEVIEW INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $255k
  • CR
    CONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $178k

Funded once

  • BI
    BARRON INDUSTRIES
    one grant, 2024 · $14k
  • BI
    BESCAST INC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • MI
    METALTEK INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2024 · $6k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
0/1
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $336,689 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIRANGEVIEW INC — $255,220 · OtherRANGEVIEW INCCONCURRENT RESOURCES LLC — $177,966 · OtherCONCURRENT RESOURCES LLCProduct Development & Analysis LLC — $167,625 · OtherProduct Development & Analysis LLCTETHON CORPORATION — $147,835 · OtherTETHON CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $105,670 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAFOUNDRY SUPPORT OPERATIONS LLC — $73,365 · OtherFOUNDRY SUPPORT OPERATIONS LLC+5 more — $84,099 · Other+5 moreALFRED UNIVERSITY — $27,610 · Education
Other$1,348,469Education$27,610

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALFRED UNIVERSITY — $27,610 over 2y, 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 ALFRED UNIVERSITY

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Investment Casting Institute 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Investment Casting Institute?

    Find your warmest path to Investment Casting Institute 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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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