· Private foundation
James F Causley Jr Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of JAMES F CAUSLEY JR FAMILY FOUNDATION’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENS | $10,000 |
| CONSERVATIVE PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RETIREMENT FUND FOR RELIGIOUS | $10,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MARY | $5,000 |
| ST WILLIAM CHURCH | $3,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER | $1,000 |
| SOLANUS CASEY CENTER | $1,000 |
| SERVANTS OF JESUS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of your 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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
JUDICIAL WATCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $540k · revenue +141%- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $180k · revenue +7%
- GCGRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $100k · revenue +350%
Funded once
- FMFRANCISCAN MISSIONARY SISTERSone grant, 2018 · $22k
- CFCENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +19%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +63%
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.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
Americans united for separation of church and state is a nonpartisan educational and advocacy organization dedicated to advancing the separation of religion and government as the only way to ensure freedom of religion, including the right…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Southeastern Legal Foundation Inc. 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 46 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 81 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
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 JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Americans United for Life Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL & EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RHEMA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MEN OF THE SACRED HEARTS MICHIGAN CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Barry-Bashur Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · Sacred Family Causes Foundation · Ed Uihlein Family Foundation · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 James F Causley Jr Family 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.
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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