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Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bakhita Kids | $15,000 |
| The Saints and Scholars Foundation Mater Dei School Cork Ireland | $10,000 |
| Secular Institute Stabat Mater | $10,000 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $10,000 |
| EWTN | $10,000 |
| Holy Family Academy | $9,500 |
| St Catherine of Siena | $8,000 |
| Institute of Catholic Culture | $7,500 |
| Christendom College Covadonga Scholarship | $7,000 |
| Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem | $6,000 |
| Carmelite Monastery of Jesus Mary and Joseph | $5,700 |
| St John the Beloved parish | $4,500 |
| Togo Mission Inc | $4,500 |
| Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter | $4,000 |
| St Timothy Catholic Church | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 15% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +6% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +76%
- BKBakhita Kids6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +121%
- HFHoly Family Academy6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CMCarmelite Monastery of JMJ - NEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SLSt Luke's at St Ignatius Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CMCarmelite Monastery of Jesus Maryone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
To educate the public about abortion
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
Action for life promotes, upholds, and supports efforts to protect the sanctity of life from conception to natural death through education, advocacy, and prayer as well as by supporting traditional family values.
Life teen is a missionary youth movement within the catholic church. we believe that eucharist-based ministry has the power to transform teens, transform parishes, and transform culture. our top priorities are resourcing and (continued on…
An education with a rigorous classical curriculum taught through the lens of the Catholic faith.
Education of students in ministerial formation: catholic priesthood and lay ministry.
The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
Ncr connects catholics to church, faith and the common good with independent news, analysis and spiritual reflection.
Catholics for Catholics is fighting to bring the Catholic faith back into the public square through rosary rallies, media, political action and more!
Advancing the catholic faith through education and dissemination of information by operation of websites.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Answers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary's Shelter Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 95 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 ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Bakhita Kids ↗
- Who funds Holy Family Academy ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CATHOLIC CULTURE ↗
- Who funds TOGO MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LIFE LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POPULATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DIETRICH VON HILDEBRAND LEGACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT JOSEPH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Children of God for Life Inc ↗
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 Moran Foundation · Cousineau Family Charity · G L Connolly Foundation · Koehr Family Foundation · William J Cammack Foundation Co William D Cammack · John a & Mary Pollock Yanta Memorial Tr · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · David S Cammack Foundation · Sacred Heart Trust Foundation · Gregory M& Deborah Mdesaye Foundation Inc · David Dinnocenti Memorial Foundation · Mary's 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 Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas 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.
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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