· Private foundation
The Cassie 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Indian Valley Area Voc Ctr | $26,000 |
| JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $19,641 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $19,641 |
| Sandwich Community High School | $14,088 |
| GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $9,820 |
| DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA HALL INC | $9,820 |
| DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA | $9,820 |
| 4 STRAY PAWS RESCUE | $7,500 |
| Sandwich Community High School | $3,050 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Illinois Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $62k · revenue +37%
DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +4%- DPDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WCWAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +76%
- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To maximize private gift support for pittsburg state university, exercise proper management of foundation assets, lay the groundwork for future fundraising success in support of the university's teaching, research and service/civic…
The chamber is the voice for business and works to power the economy for southeast michigan through public policy, advocacy and leading regional economic development and talent initiatives.
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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 University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAUBONSEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds JOLIET JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds GROSSE POINTE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS FOR PITS ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Cassie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cassie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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