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Ronald G Casty Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$7,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$7,000
PINE STREET INN$7,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$6,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$6,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,580
PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION$5,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$5,000
HOPE AND COMFORT$5,000
TEMPLE EMANUEL$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +17%

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%
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.

04Its field

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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Boston Architectural College

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

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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.

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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.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 71 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherNORTON MUSEUM: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $14,000 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 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 budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 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 budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $4,741 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWheelchairs 4 Kids Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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 budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthday Wishes Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SPORTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncEastern Cambridge Fou…The Hamilton Company …Cummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ronald G Casty Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald G Casty Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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