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The William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation at a glance

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The William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$810k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$937kScience & Tech$400kEducation$204kHealth$188kHuman Services$37kPhilanthropy$36kRecreation & Sports$15kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$7,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$400,000
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$200,000
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$40,000
PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$30,000
RYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION$25,000
EDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$16,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$14,000
BLESSING BOARD$10,150
GUNNAR FREDERICK WOELFEL FUND INC$10,000
STARABILITY FOUNDATION$10,000
STEEL CITY SQUASH INC$10,000
OTHER$10,000
SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN$9,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY$7,500
ARTIS - NAPLES$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 (FY22–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLESSING BOARD: $10k → 11%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $9k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $5k → 10%SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $2k → 10%YOUTH HAVEN: $3k → 10%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

IL
NY
IN
PA
KY
VA
TN
DC
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 8% of The William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The William & Patricia Kassling Family 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 13 repeat orgs$629k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
29

Total granted

$1.3M
$507k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $600k · revenue +69%
  • Purdue Research Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +39%
  • Vanderbilt University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • HS
    HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
  • PR
    PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +14%
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.

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Point Park University

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…

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2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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6
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
DePauw University

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…

Education
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
10
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Homes 4 Vets Cooperative Corporatio. 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

32 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. 32 of the 58 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)
32/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER: $241,745 · OtherOTHERHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PA: $200,000 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PAPURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherPURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONTHE RYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHAB: $42,500 · OtherTHE RYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Other+24 more: $125,250 · Other+24 moreHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNS…+4 more: $12,000 · Arts & CulturePurdue Research Foundation: $300,000 · EducationPurdue Research Foundat…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURG…Vanderbilt University: $24,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityEDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $17,000 · Education+3 more: $11,500 · EducationRYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION: $95,500 · HealthFACE AUTISM INC: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,000 · Health+4 more: $4,000 · HealthNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyThe Gunnar Frederick Woelfel Fund Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropySTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesTHE BLESSING BOARD: $10,150 · Human ServicesYOUTH HAVEN INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$779,495Arts & Culture$612,000Education$402,500Health$108,500Philanthropy$38,500Human Services$28,650Recreation & Sports$5,000

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 budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $600,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN SHAZIER FUND FOR SPINAL REHABILITATION: $95,500 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVanderbilt University: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLESSING BOARD: $10,150 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTEEL CITY SQUASH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACE AUTISM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLESEA GLOBAL FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOX CHAPEL GOLF CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNAPLES ART ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES YACHT CLUB BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $500 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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Collier Community Fou…Hillman Family Founda…Fountainhead Foundati…The Burke Family Foun…The Burke FoundationAllegheny FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Bessemer Giving F…Baird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA16.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Hillman Family Foundations · Fountainhead Foundation · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report 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.
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How do I get to The William & Patricia Kassling Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The William & Patricia Kassling Family 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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