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Cassels Family 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $561k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $221,250 |
| HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| SCHOOL TIME BIBLE MINISTRIES | $115,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $75,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC | $25,000 |
| FORGE | $22,500 |
| GREENVILLE PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $7,500 |
| FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| BOOKS IN EVERY BAG | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $366k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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
- CECUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP3× · 2021–2024 · $915k · revenue +25%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +8%
- STSCHOOL TIME BIBLE MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $215k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE OF COLUMBIAone grant, 2018 · $750k
- NTNeighbors Together Incone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -72%
- FCFULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -7%
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.
Christian teaching and the spreading of the gospel throughout the beaufort south carolina area.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Central christian college of the bible (central) exists to develop servant-leaders for the church. as a traditional undergraduate bible college of the restoration movement, central equips faithful men and women for leadership ministry.
An interdenominational college ministry on seven college campuses across north and south carolina. goal is to see students leave college equipped and passionate to walk with jesus in the church and spread his love to others.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Charis Bible Colleges, Inc. (CBC) was established to train and equip individuals to carry out the Gospel of Jesus Christ through practical application through mentoring, training, and teaching.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Evangelism, Church Planting, Christian Growth and discipleship.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Our mission is to see communities transformed by the Gospel through loving, serving, sharing, and sending. We accomplish this mission through local partnership, training, and service opportunities while advocating and empowering…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 39 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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 32 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 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL TIME BIBLE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING OF MCCORMICK SC INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds Friends of Epworth ↗
- Who funds Chris Musgrove Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds One Life Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION CENTER OF THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOME ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE PRESBYTERIAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds EZEKIEL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds Books in Every Bag ↗
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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Toby Cassels Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Lipscomb Family Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Cassels Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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