· Private foundation
The Casper-Adams 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC | $300,000 |
| TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $250,000 |
| ACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES OF FLORIDA INC | $100,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY | $50,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY | $15,750 |
| SKILLS CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC | $10,000 |
| H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CHISELERS INC | $5,000 |
| TAMPA THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| GASPARILLA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC | $5,000 |
| TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of The Casper-Adams 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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC3× · 2023–2025 · $929k · revenue +306%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $133k · revenue +46%
- TSTHE SKILLS CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TPTampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Incone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +18% · 77% of their budget
- TMTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
- HCHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +6%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Maintain and raise funds for the benefit of the tampa museum of art, inc.
Changing lives through performing arts.(continued on schedule o)
To provide support to and to receive and administer funds for the charitable and educational operations of the tampa bay history center, inc.
The foundation is organized as a supporting organization exclusively for the benefit of tampa bay performing arts center, inc. dba david a. straz jr. center for the performing arts ("center or "straz center"). see schedule o for expanded…
The ringling is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, entertains, and honors the legacy of john & mable ringling.
The florida museum of photographic arts is a museum dedicated to exhibiting important photographic art as central to contemporary life and culture.
The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.
To support the greater tampa chamber of commerce through leadership and educational programs.
The Tampa Bay Aviation Association (TBAA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting aviation and aerospace education, as well as fostering a strong sense of community among aviation enthusiasts in the Tampa Bay area.
The mission of the Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa a/k/a ZooTampa at Lowry Park, is to rescue, rehabilitate and care for animals.(Expanded mission on Schedule O)ZooTampa creates exceptional personalized experiences that connect…
The circus arts conservatory's mission is to engage and educate students using unique and innovative learning programs; to measuraly improve the quality of life for individuals in care communities; and to advance the extraordinary legacy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tampa Theatre Inc a/K/a Tampa Theatre Foundation and the most unlike its peers is 1VOICE Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 25 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Tampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SKILLS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds University of South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY BUSINESS COALITION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHISELERS INC ↗
- Who funds Laxer Family Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS INDIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL IN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds STARTING RIGHT NOW ↗
- Who funds 1VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY 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.
Open a dossier: Vinik Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Lightning Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Frank E Duckwall Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Suncoast Credit Union Foundation · The Saunders Foundation · New York Yankees Tampa Foundation Inc · Sbj Resch Family Foundation Inc · Gobioff 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 Casper-Adams 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tampa Museum of Art Inc — 0% of income from government
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.