· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $115k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bakhita Kids | $15,000 |
| EWTN | $10,000 |
| The Saints and Scholars Foundation Mater Dei School Cork Ireland | $10,000 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $10,000 |
| Secular Institute Stabat Mater | $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 |
| Togo Mission Inc | $4,500 |
| St John the Beloved parish | $4,500 |
| Life Legal Defense Foundation | $4,000 |
| Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 15%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SLSt Luke's at St Ignatius Catholic Churchone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CMCarmelite Monastery of JMJ - NEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CMCarmelite Monastery of Jesus Maryone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
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.
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To educate the public about abortion
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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.
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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.
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How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 95 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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