· Private foundation
The Toby Cassels 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $812k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY | $221,250 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS | $200,000 |
| EZEKIEL CENTER | $166,000 |
| HAGGAI INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $37,000 |
| CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $25,000 |
| KINGSMEN BASEBALL 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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 24% of The Toby Cassels 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. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in SC; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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 · $665k · revenue +25%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +8%
- WMWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2023 · $411k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- OGOliver Gospel Missiongraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +47% · 30% of their budget
- CCCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTLone grant, 2022 · $449k · revenue +11%
- MHMidlands Housing Alliance Incone grant, 2022 · $333k · revenue -10%
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 Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
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.
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.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Our mission is to establish and strengthen cbmc ministries at the national and regional levels across the globe as they engage the marketplace with the gospel of jesus christ and partner with men and women in transformative discipleship…
The cco (coalition for christian outreach) is an interdenominational campus ministry organization with a mission of "transforming college students to transform the world." the cco is supported primarily through donor contributions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International and the most unlike its peers is Gamechangers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Oliver Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
- Who funds CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Midlands Housing Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds GAMECHANGERS INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO BASEBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HDLeaders ↗
- Who funds Charleston Library Society ↗
- Who funds Homeless No More Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF SC INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITEUS INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSMEN BASEBALL 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · The Wolfe Family Foundation · Cassels Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Dorothy D Smith Charitable Foundation · The Parrish Family Foundation · Michael J Mungo Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · South Carolina Christian Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Toby Cassels 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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