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The Casement Fund Ltd

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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$312kArts & Culture$193kHuman Services$96kHealth$1k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$173k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DREW UNIVERSITY$34,500
THE CLASSICAL THEATER OF HARLEM$30,000
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE$24,000
EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA$4,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$1,500
YALE ALUMNI NONPROFIT ALLIANCE$1,000
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 (FY18–24, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $24k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%HARLEMS CHILDREN'S ZONE: $12k → 17%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$568k · 9 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$568k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +6%
  • TC
    THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +68%
  • EI
    EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRACTURED ATLAS FBO THE WRITERS STUDIO
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SW
    SPARKS & WIRY CRIES CO ERIKA SWITZER
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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
Foundation for Modern Opera
2
Operativo Houston

Providing paid opportunities for Houston based singers.

Arts & Culture
3
Center for Contemporary Opera

Based in ny city the company focuses on producing and developing new opera and music theater works and rviving rarely seen american operas written after world war. teh center for contemporary operas ha sstaged the premiers of over seventy…

4
Chamber Opera of Chicago
5
Houston Grand Opera Association Inc

The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
6
Hopera

Hopera's mission is to produce live musical performances in unique Houston Area spaces that focus on and empower Houston Area artists. Our Pint-Sized Performance concert series empowers local musicians to create original programs that are…

Arts & Culture
7
American Opera Projects Inc

To develop and present new and innovative works of lyric theater, provide a creative home to emerging and established artists, and engage contemporary communities in a transformative operatic experience.

Arts & Culture
8
Queens Opera Theatre

To educate the general public of new york on all aspects of opera through opera productions, lectures, classes, camps, social media, newsletters, etc. while emphasizing the need to make opera accessible and affordable to all people, no…

Arts & Culture
9
The Harlem Chamber Players Inc

The organization is an ethnically diverse collective of professional musicians dedicated to bringing high caliber, affordable and accessible live classical music to people in the Harlem community and beyond.

Arts & Culture
10
The Esoterics

The Esoterics is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble, dedicated to performing and perpetuating contemporary choral music from around the world.

Arts & Culture
11
Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago
Arts & Culture
12
Cantata Profana Inc

Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone 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

8 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. 8 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DREW UNIVERSITY — $276,000 · EducationDREW UNIVERSITYTHE CLASSICAL THEATER OF HARLEM — $75,000 · OtherTHE CLASSICAL THEATER O…ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $12,000 · OtherORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW…FRACTURED ATLAS FBO THE WRITERS STUDIO — $10,000 · OtherFRACTURED ATLAS FBO THE…Individual grant recipient — $5,000 · Other+19 more — $21,748 · Other+19 moreTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLASSICAL THEAT…EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA — $40,000 · Arts & CultureEXPERIMENTS IN OPER…INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $96,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S …HEAR YOUR SONG INC — $1,000 · Health
Education$276,000Other$123,748Arts & Culture$105,000Human Services$96,000Health$1,000

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 budgetDREW UNIVERSITY — $276,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $96,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEXPERIMENTS IN OPERA — $40,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $12,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHEAR YOUR SONG INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetON SITE OPERA INC — $600 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DREW UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
  • Who funds THE CLASSICAL THEATRE OF HARLEM INC
  • Who funds EXPERIMENTS IN OPERA
  • Who funds ORATORIO SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HEAR YOUR SONG INC
  • Who funds ON SITE OPERA INC

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY12.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Casement Fund Ltd 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Drew University0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Casement Fund Ltd?

Find your warmest path to The Casement Fund Ltd 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 29 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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