· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SERVANTS OF JESUS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER | $1,000 |
| SOLANUS CASEY CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 81 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James F Causley Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James F Causley Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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