· Private foundation
Louis J Casale Jr Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of Louis J Casale Jr Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORPUS CHRISTI SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC | $25,000 |
| STAMFORD MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER INCORPORATED | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA - GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARY PARISH CORPARATION OF STAMFORD | $10,000 |
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC | $10,000 |
| BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP | $5,000 |
| STJOHNS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| STARFISH CONNECTION INC | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART CHURCH CORP OF STAMFORD | $5,000 |
| FERGUSON LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +64%
- SMStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +100%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- JAJunior Achievementone grant, 2018 · $30k
- CLChildcare Learning Centerone grant, 2017 · $29k
- BWBecause Water Incone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Our mission is to run a world-class urban park in the heart of stamford that serves as both an oasis in city life and a vibrant, diverse, green-space that inspires sound environmental practices and learning.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americares Free Clinics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 45 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds STARFISH CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Garden Homes Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Rich Foundation Inc · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Odyssey Group Foundation
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 Louis J Casale Jr Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 85% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 28% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 7% of income from government
- Building One Community Corp — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 3% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 2% of income from government
- Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stamford Emergency Medical Services 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.
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