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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.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 33
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$3k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations James F Causley Jr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCivil RightsInternationalReligionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$100k0%
FY20245$44k0%
FY202332$216k16%
FY202231$405k32%
FY202133$429k24%
FY202025$366k28%
FY201932$614k19%
FY201832$733k28%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.3MPublic Benefit$683kHuman Services$346kCivil Rights$310kArts & Culture$188kInternational$110kCrime & Legal$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Judicial Watch Inc$540,00090%
Media Research Center$180,00040%
Grace Center Foundation Inc$100,00062%
Conservative Partnership Institute$95,00070%
Alliance Defending Freedom$60,00060%
Archdiocese of Detroit$50,0002n/a
National Legal and Policy Center$27,00080%
Catholic Relief Services$11,0004n/a
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$11,0002n/a
Americans United for Life Inc$10,00020%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of James F Causley Jr Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Judicial Watch Inc$540,00090%
Media Research Center$180,00040%
Grace Center Foundation Inc$100,00062%
Conservative Partnership Institute$95,00070%
Alliance Defending Freedom$60,00060%
Archdiocese of Detroit$50,0002n/a
National Legal and Policy Center$27,00080%
Catholic Relief Services$11,0004n/a
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order Inc$11,0002n/a
Americans United for Life Inc$10,00020%
Center for Urban Renewal & Education$10,00011%
The Heritage Foundation$10,00010%
Rhema International Inc$9,50074%
American Cornerstone Institute Inc$8,00030%
Servants of Jesus$8,0007n/a
Men of the Sacred Hearts Michigan Chapter$6,70041%
Catholic Charities$5,5002n/a
Public Interest Legal Foundation$5,50020%
Project Veritas$5,00010%
Second Amendment Foundation$3,26540%
Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries$3,00050%
Prager University Foundation$3,00030%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$2,5001n/a
Southeastern Legal Foundation Inc$2,00020%
American Constitutional Rights Union$2,00010%
Turning Point USA Inc$2,00020%
Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home$1,50020%
Disabled American Veterans$1,05040%
Young America's Foundation$1,00010%
St Matthews House Inc$60020%
The Daily Caller News Foundation$30010%
Sisters of St Francis of Assisi$2502n/a
St Jude Shrine$2002n/a
Salesian Missions Inc$501n/a
Association of the Miraculous Medal$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James F Causley Jr Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $540,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMedia Research Center: $180,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGrace Center Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $95,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Legal and Policy Center: $27,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAmericans United for Life Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Urban Renewal & Education: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRhema International Inc: $9,500 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Cornerstone Institute Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMen of the Sacred Hearts Michigan Chapter: $6,700 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetPublic Interest Legal Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Veritas: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Amendment Foundation: $3,265 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Legal Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Constitutional Rights Union: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Daily Caller News Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Donors Trust IncVA21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About James F Causley Jr Family Foundation

How much does James F Causley Jr Family Foundation give?
James F Causley Jr Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does James F Causley Jr Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Public Benefit (21%), Human Services (10%).
Who are James F Causley Jr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Judicial Watch Inc ($540k), Media Research Center ($180k), Grace Center Foundation Inc ($100k).
Does James F Causley Jr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James F Causley Jr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as James F Causley Jr Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation.
Where is James F Causley Jr Family Foundation based?
James F Causley Jr Family Foundation is based in MI.

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 81 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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