· Private foundation
John and Leslea Caswell 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $238k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA ADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE | $125,000 |
| TRINITY FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST AND FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC | $43,054 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $35,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $30,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC | $25,000 |
| 360 COMMUNITIES | $25,000 |
| LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC | $15,000 |
| MISSION OF HOPE INC | $15,000 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $10,000 |
| INSIGHT FOR LIVING | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| KTIS-FM 985 STATION | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
41 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $601k · revenue +27%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $214k · revenue +42%
- 3C360 Communities6× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MAMinesota Adult Teen Challengeone grant, 2020 · $50k
- MCMISSION CENTRAL- LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNODone grant, 2021 · $40k
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEDIAone grant, 2024 · $6k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
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.
To advance the gospel of jesus christ to every nation through pastoral care and missionary support.
Time of grace is for people who want more growth and less struggle in their spiritual walk. we share the truth of god's word simply and clearly through television, print, and digital media that people view millions of times each month. we…
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
The mission of the mennonite is to help readers glorify god, grow in faith, and become agents of healing and hope in our world. the mennonite is the official periodical for mennonite church usa, a christian denomination in the united…
World christian broadcasting exists so that people in places best served by broadcast media become aware of the good news of jesus christ and want to know more. geographic areas that cannot be easily served by missionaries are a priority.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Mercy multiplied international, inc. is a christian-based entity that exists as the central coordinating body for the mercy multiplied program and brand. formerly known as mercy ministries international, inc., the ministry officially…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Institute for Cancer Research. 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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 52 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 Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds 360 Communities ↗
- Who funds Trinity First Lutheran School Charitable Trust and Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT FOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF HOPE INC MISSION OF HOPE HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GOSERV GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN RADIO MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLARINDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR 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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 John and Leslea Caswell 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.