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Sophia and William Casey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$732k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$315k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$3.0MInternational$1.2MReligion$334kCivil Rights$221kArts & Culture$157kPublic Benefit$76kYouth Development$68kHuman Services$67kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC$315,000
CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE$100,000
YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION$75,000
ST MARY'S CHURCH$50,000
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN$25,000
IRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH$20,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY$15,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$10,000
GLENWOOD HOOK & LADDER ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY INC$10,000
THE REDEMPTORISTS$10,000
PERSECUTION PROJECT FOUNDATION$10,000
OPERATION SMILE INC$6,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$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 (FY20–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $1k → 26%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%MOMMA'S INC: $5k → 6%MOMMA'S INC: $5k → 6%Mommas Inc: $3k → 6%THE VISCARDI CENTER INC: $1k → 6%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
SD
IN
NJ
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
DC
AL
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Sophia and William Casey 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, 49% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Sophia and William Casey Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 37 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
18

Total granted

$5.2M
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +66%
  • CE
    CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +90%
  • YA
    Young America's Foundation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • NM
    National Museum of Catholic Art & Library
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
  • TR
    The Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • LI
    LONG ISLAND ARTS ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%

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
St Charles Hospital Corp

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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4
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
5
St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Wsnchs North Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Chs Physician Partners Pc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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 backsteadyYouth Development CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Missionary Organi…Developmental Disabilities …Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%78%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,510

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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 68 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $1,700,500 · OtherTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INCYoung America's Foundation — $220,000 · OtherYoung America's FoundationST MARY'S CHURCH — $172,500 · OtherST MARY'S CHURCH+40 more — $365,700 · Other+40 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $1,206,260 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICSIRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $435,000 · InternationalIRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUND…+5 more — $41,500 · InternationalCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $815,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCAT…CATHOLIC DISTANCE UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · Education+2 more — $1,500 · EducationCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $112,000 · Arts & CultureThe OSS Society Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLONG ISLAND ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,130 · Arts & CultureTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $26,000 · Public BenefitBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH — $57,550 · Youth DevelopmentGLENWOOD HOOK & LADDER ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY INC — $22,500 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 · HealthST FRANCIS HOSPITAL — $5,000 · HealthST JOHNLAND NURSING CENTER INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Other$2,458,700International$1,682,760Education$856,500Arts & Culture$147,130Public Benefit$71,000Youth Development$57,550Health$57,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC — $1,700,500 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $1,206,260 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION — $815,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetIRISH EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $435,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetYoung America's Foundation — $220,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN — $112,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF OYSTER BAY - EAST NORWICH — $57,550 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC DISTANCE UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY — $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPERSECUTION PROJECT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe OSS Society Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetGLENWOOD HOOK & LADDER ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESS EXECUTIVES FOR NATIONAL SECURITY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMommas Inc — $12,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Museum of Catholic Art & Library — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONG ISLAND ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNassau County Museum of Art — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ORDER OF MALTA PILGRIMAGE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNational Life Center Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNLAND NURSING CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST JOHNLAND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VISCARDI CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT UNDERSTANDING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 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.

The Bahnik Foundation…Mutual of America Fou…The New York Communit…The Halprin Family Fo…Farrell Family Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Ibm International Fou…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
The Bahnik Foundation IncNY19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bahnik Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Halprin Family Foundation B · Farrell Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Sophia and William Casey 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sophia and William Casey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sophia and William Casey 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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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