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Kurt and Noelle Cassel Charitable Foundation Trust at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

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Kurt and Noelle Cassel Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$11k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$71kHealth$16kReligion$16kYouth Development$14kHuman Services$4kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$123k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH$10,000
USO$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $500 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $600 → 14%SPRINGHILL CAMP: $12k → 16%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $250 → 13%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $10k → 8%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $250 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $300 → 14%SPRINGHILL CAMP: $2k → 16%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%FORGOTTEN HARVEST: $250 → 8%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $51k → 8%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 8%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6k → 8%BUTLER UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%GRACE CENTER FOR HOPE: $1k → 8%GRACE CENTER FOR HOPE: $250 → 8%GRACE CENTER FOR HOPE: $250 → 8%GRACE CENTER FOR HOPE: $250 → 8%BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 8 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -53% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$107k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-53%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
EducationHealthPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DC
    DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $54k · revenue +28%
  • BU
    Butler University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +39%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BH
    BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -53%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue -81%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Indiana University Health Bedford Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
5
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
6
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
7
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
8
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

American college of occupational and environmental medicine (acoem) provides leadership to promote optimal health and safety of workers, workplaces and environments by: educating health professionals and the public; stimulating research;…

Arts & Culture
9
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

—
10
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beaumont Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is SpringHill Camps. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $54,000 · EducationDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLButler University: $17,000 · EducationButler UniversityFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $16,100 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHSpringHill Camps: $14,000 · OtherSpringHill CampsALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCHGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $1,750 · Other+2 more: $1,900 · OtherBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 · HealthUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,250 · Public BenefitFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$71,000Other$43,750Health$5,250Public Benefit$2,250Food & Nutrition$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDETROIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $54,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetButler University: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpringHill Camps: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE CENTERS OF HOPE: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kurt and Noelle Cassel Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kurt and Noelle Cassel Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 12 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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