Minnesota · 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.
- $489k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $479k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $423k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $592k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $408k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $489k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $295k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $601,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Trinity First Lutheran Church | $300,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $214,054 | 6 | 0% |
| 360 Communities | $165,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trinity First Lutheran School Charitable Trust and Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Young Life | $145,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $130,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Landmark Conservancy Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $50,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($351k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation
- How much does John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation give?
- John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $488,804 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Education (18%), International (11%).
- Who are John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ($601k), Trinity First Lutheran Church ($300k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($214k).
- Does John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Leslea Caswell 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 John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing.
- Where is John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation based?
- John and Leslea Caswell Family Foundation is based in MN.
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