North Carolina · Private foundation
Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey 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.
- $206k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 8 | $206k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $207k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $227k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $217k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $169k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $30k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| R Bruce Irons Camp Fund | $200,000 | 5 | 10% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Echo Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Central Catholic High School Inc | $60,000 | 5 | n/a |
| American Liver Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Luca Media Collective | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| InReach | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roof Above Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Mecklenburg County Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| R Bruce Irons Camp Fund | $200,000 | 5 | 10% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Echo Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Central Catholic High School Inc | $60,000 | 5 | n/a |
| American Liver Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Luca Media Collective | $24,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| InReach | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Roof Above Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boy Scouts of America Mecklenburg County Council | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzar School Inc | $8,333 | 1 | 0% |
| The Hunger and Health Coalition Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($444k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation
- How much does Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation give?
- Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $206,333 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Youth Development (20%), Education (19%).
- Who are Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: R Bruce Irons Camp Fund ($200k), University of Pittsburgh ($125k), Echo Foundation ($100k).
- Does Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey 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 Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, LPL Financial Foundation Inc, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation based?
- Nicholas a Caspero & Tomiko Vasey Foundation is based in NC.
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