· Private foundation
The Cason Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI | $15,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| STORYLINE CHURCH | $12,000 |
| CITY WALK CHURCH | $12,000 |
| TRAILHEAD CHURCH | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| REDEMPTION HILL CHURCH | $12,000 |
| PATHFINDER CHURCH | $12,000 |
| THIRST CHURCH | $12,000 |
| MANCHESTER PROJECT | $12,000 |
| EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| CITIZEN'S CHURCH | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA MONROE | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
72 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LCLOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +1%
- RCRatio Christi Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $895k · revenue +79%
- SCSOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC3× · 2017–2021 · $69k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $35k
- ALABBIE LANE RETREAT MINSITRYone grant, 2018 · $30k
- COCHAPEL ON THE CAMPUS INCone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
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.
Faith's purpose is to mentor students for spirit-filled leadership in ministry, in light of the great commission. while academics are important, the classrooms are not the only learning place. through a combination of formal instruction,…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…
North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
North central university is a christian university with a commitment to academic excellence.
The mission of truett mcconnell university, a georgia baptist university, is to equip students to fulfill the great comission by fostering a christian worldview through a biblically centered education in a family-friendly environment.
Gcu serves the global church by educating mission leaders to fulfill the great commission of jesus christ. gcu accomplishes this mission through a comprehensive program of biblical and general education, christ-centered service and…
Pacific bible college is a christ-centered learning community committed to equipping students to become biblically competent, academically proficient, spiritually cultivated, and culturally engaged servant leaders.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 103 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LOUISIANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
- Who funds SALAM IN THE HOLY LAND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Nehemiah Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ABBIE LANE RETREAT MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds The Roots Community Church ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Woman's Missionary Union Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cason Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cason Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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