Texas · Nonprofit
CASI INC
CASI INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,450 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $179k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1k
- Net assets
- $659k
What Casi Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to promote chili and raise money for charity. Chili appreciation society international, inc (casi) sanctions cookoffs at which funds are raised for charities. We host an annual championship for qualifying cooks, award scholarships and provide grants to the local community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Assistance to domestic organizations. Casi makes grants to local schools, charitable and governmental organizations in the area of the cookoff, as the area is a low income community.
$31,225 spentof which $15,100 as grants$22,276 earned by the program32% of program spendingAssistance to domestic individuals. Casi grants scholarships on a national basis currently providing $1,000 per year scholarships to approximately 30 students. At the first board meeting of each fiscal year, the board authorizes the number of scholarships to be granted for the current year. In 2025, 7 scholarships were awarded which includes one scholarship for the valedictorian and the salutatorian of the terlingua high school and 2 trade school scholarships. A specified number of additional scholarships can be applied for by any high school graduating student. The application form is posted on the casi website. Applicants must fill out the application and mail it to the scholarship committee chairman. The applications are distributed to all of the committee members who review them individually and then rank them in the order in which they believe the scholarships should be granted. The committee chairman then tabulates the results from the committee members and announces the winners.
$66,418 spentof which $33,000 as grants$13,308 earned by the program68% of program spendingCasi produces a monthly electronic newsletter that informs the members of upcoming cookoffs, cookoff results and other happenings in the chili world. Occasionally printing and postage expenses occur. Revenues are from the sale of advertising space for cookoffs.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $97,643.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $598k to $638k (+7%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
72% of CASI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Steve Herries
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $197 → $369.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CASI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CASI INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CASI INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CASI INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
49% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CASI INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CASI INC?
- CASI INC (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,450 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($1,450). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CASI INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,450 in grants to CASI INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CASI INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CASI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing