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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.

$879k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$221k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.8MRecreation & Sports$2.5MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$600kInternational$586kHousing & Shelter$519kYouth Development$295kHealth$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $62k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $812k
$150,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNITEUS: $10k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
CA
CO
SC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 24% of The Toby Cassels Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in SC; by stated purpose, 82%.

The Toby Cassels Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 6 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$4.2M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

67%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CE
    CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP
    3× · 2021–2024 · $665k · revenue +25%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +8%
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $411k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • OG
    Oliver Gospel Missiongraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M · revenue +45% · 30% of their budget
  • CC
    CROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL
    one grant, 2022 · $449k · revenue +11%
  • MH
    Midlands Housing Alliance Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $333k · revenue -10%
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

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…

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2
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

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…

Religion
3
Churches in Missions Inc

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...

Human Services
4
Christianity Today International

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.

Religion
5
Campus Outreach Columbia

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.

Philanthropy
6
Challenge Ministries Us

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.

International
7
Biglife International Inc

Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.

Recreation & Sports
8
Central Christian College of the Bible

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.

Education
9
Mission Without Borders International

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…

International
10
Freedom in Christ Ministries

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.

Religion
11
Cbmc International Inc

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…

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12
Coalition for Christian Outreach

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; 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.
05the grantee network

18 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. 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/18
Grantees still filing
9/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP COLE: $2,350,000 · OtherCAMP COLEMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $333,333 · OtherMidlands Housing Alliance IncGAMECHANGERS INC: $295,000 · OtherGAMECHANGERS INCEZEKIEL CENTER: $166,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $150,000 · OtherHAGGAI INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · Other+8 more: $322,000 · Other+8 moreOliver Gospel Mission: $1,275,000 · ReligionOliver Gospel MissionCUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP: $665,000 · ReligionCUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUPCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL: $449,000 · ReligionCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INT…+2 more: $55,000 · ReligionCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $2,148,750 · EducationCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UN…UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $600,000 · PhilanthropyWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $410,800 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated: $175,000 · InternationalPALMETTO BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $125,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · Health
Other$3,766,333Religion$2,444,000Education$2,148,750Philanthropy$600,000International$585,800Recreation & Sports$125,000Health$50,000

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 budgetCOLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $2,148,750 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $1,275,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetCUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP: $665,000 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $600,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCROSSOVER COMMUNICATIONS INTL: $449,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $410,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $333,333 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPALMETTO BASEBALL LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHDLeaders: $50,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharleston Library Society: $44,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHomeless No More Inc: $36,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBoys Farm Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITEUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Central Carolina Comm…The Wolfe Family Foun…Cassels Family Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…Dorothy D Smith Chari…The Parrish Family Fo…Michael J Mungo Found…The Nord Family Found…South Carolina Christ…Natl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC23.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Toby Cassels Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Toby Cassels Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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