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Ronald G Casty Family Foundation

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.

$201k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$92kPhilanthropy$68kReligion$51kHealth$51kHousing & Shelter$51kHuman Services$35kFood & Nutrition$34kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k67 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$15,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$12,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$12,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY$10,000
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$9,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$7,000
PINE STREET INN$7,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$7,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$6,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$6,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,580
NORTON MUSEUM$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
HOPE AND COMFORT$5,000
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS: $3k → 12%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $100 → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $5k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $5k → 7%CATIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$337k · 53 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
10

Total granted

$337k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+19%

Still filing today

77%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalEducationOther

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

  • TO
    Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18k · revenue +34%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +58%
  • F
    FASPE
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

7
Music and Dance Theater Chicago Inc
Arts & Culture
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation

The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…

Arts & Culture
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish & Middle Eastern Dia…Health Advocacy and ResearchPerforming Arts Organizatio…Early Childhood Care CentersEmployee Benefit TrustsFamily-Focused Philanthropi…Massachusetts Advocacy & St…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 50 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr20%21%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr12%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr21%11%10–20yr20%11%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr12%60%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
12%
5,289/45,965

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.

04the grantee network

55 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
41/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE EMANUEL — $48,165 · OtherTEMPLE EMANUELBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL — $27,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $25,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $14,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $12,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherNORTON MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · OtherFASPE — $7,500 · Other+29 more — $48,318 · Other+29 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CON…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCH…BOSTON BALLET INC — $11,287 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PHILHARMONIC SYM…ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIATIO…HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $4,741 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE C…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $18,250 · Arts & Culture+12 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beac…Hebrew Senior Life Inc — $6,500 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Lif…+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $3,000 · Human ServicesCatie's Closet Inc — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,000 · Food & NutritionDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $14,000 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC — $12,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$211,983Arts & Culture$78,278Philanthropy$67,500Human Services$28,100Food & Nutrition$22,000Health$14,000Housing & Shelter$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC — $11,287 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $4,741 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY CENTER INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Ronald G Casty Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc4% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
  • Emerson College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Ronald G Casty Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ronald G Casty Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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