How much does Sophia and William Casey Foundation give?

Sophia and William Casey Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $732,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Sophia and William Casey Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), International (23%), Religion (6%).

Who are Sophia and William Casey Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tomorrow's Hope Foundation Inc ($1.7M), The Institute of World Politics ($1.2M), Christendom Educational Corporation ($815k).

Does Sophia and William Casey Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sophia and William Casey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sophia and William Casey Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bahnik Foundation Inc, Mutual of America Foundation, The New York Community Trust.

Where is Sophia and William Casey Foundation based?

Sophia and William Casey Foundation is based in NY.

Sophia and William Casey Foundation

Sophia and William Casey Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Sophia and William Casey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$732k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$315k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k18 grants · $57k
$10k–50k9 grants · $135k
$50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$250k+1 grant · $315k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
THE REDEMPTORISTS	$10,000
GLENWOOD HOOK & LADDER ENGINE & HOSE COMPANY INC	$10,000
PERSECUTION PROJECT FOUNDATION	$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC	$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$10,000
OPERATION SMILE INC	$6,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES	$5,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Sophia and William Casey Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Sophia and William Casey Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

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%
LI
LONG ISLAND ARTS ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +24%
TR
The Redemptorists of the Baltimore Province
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

27/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,458,700International$1,682,760Education$856,500Arts & Culture$147,130Public Benefit$71,000Youth Development$57,550Health$57,000

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.

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.

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

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 Sophia and William Casey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sophia and William Casey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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

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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