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The Casper-Adams Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$820k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$1.8MReligion$300kInternational$133kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kHuman Services$51kRecreation & Sports$45kHealth$44kPhilanthropy$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+2 grants · $550k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 BAY HISTORY CENTER INC$10,000
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 MUSEUM OF ART INC$5,000
GASPARILLA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC$5,000
CHISELERS INC$5,000
TAMPA THEATRE INC$5,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC: $15k → 13%RIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 13%RIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 13%RIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 13%TAMPA POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION CHARITY FUND I: $55k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 34% of The Casper-Adams Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Casper-Adams 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+16%

Still filing today

92%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • TM
    TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $929k · revenue +306%
  • TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +2%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $133k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • TP
    Tampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +18% · 77% of their budget
  • TM
    TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • HC
    HAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +15%
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.

1
Tampa Museum of Art Foundation Inc

Maintain and raise funds for the benefit of the tampa museum of art, inc.

Arts & Culture
2
Ruth Eckerd Hall Inc

Changing lives through performing arts.(continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
3
The Tampa Bay History Center Foundation Inc

To provide support to and to receive and administer funds for the charitable and educational operations of the tampa bay history center, inc.

Arts & Culture
4
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center Foundation 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…

Arts & Culture
5
The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Foundation Incorporated

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Florida Museum of Photographic Arts Inc

The florida museum of photographic arts is a museum dedicated to exhibiting important photographic art as central to contemporary life and culture.

Arts & Culture
7
The Players Inc

The players theatre's mission is to entertain, educate, and engage the community in high quality live theatre.

Arts & Culture
8
Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

To support the greater tampa chamber of commerce through leadership and educational programs.

Education
9
Foundation for a Healthy St Petersburg Inc
Health
10
Tampa Bay Aviation Association Inc

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.

Education
11
Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa Inc

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…

Animals
12
The Circus Arts Conservatory Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tampa Theatre Inc a/K/a Tampa Theatre Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $750,000 · OtherTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES OF FLORIDA INC: $300,000 · OtherACADEMY OF THE HOLY NAMES OF FLORIDA INC+10 more: $50,600 · OtherTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $928,500 · Arts & CultureTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC+3 more: $45,500 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $132,896 · InternationalTampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesRIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE SKILLS CENTER INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthTHE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: $30,000 · Environment
Other$1,100,600Arts & Culture$974,000International$132,896Human Services$100,000Youth Development$45,000Health$43,500Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAMPA MUSEUM OF ART INC: $928,500 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTAMPA BAY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF TAMPA BAY INC: $132,896 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTampa Police Benevolent Association Charity Fund Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetTHE SKILLS CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAMPA BAY HISTORY CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE FIRST STEP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetGASPARILLA FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS INC: $17,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGASPARILLA MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAMPTON CLASSIC HORSE SHOW INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of South Florida Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMPA BAY BUSINESS COALITION FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CHISELERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLaxer Family Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHERIFFS INDIAN ADVISORY COUNCIL IN: $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF TAMPA BAY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Vinik Family Foundati…Community Foundation …Lightning FoundationDebartolo Family Foun…Frank E Duckwall Foun…Triad Foundation IncPublix Super Markets …Suncoast Credit Union…The Saunders Foundati…New York Yankees Tamp…Sbj Resch Family Foun…Gobioff Foundation
Vinik Family FoundationFL26× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Casper-Adams Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Casper-Adams Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get 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 · 0–90%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home