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Marguerite Casey Foundation

Name: Marguerite Casey Foundation grants, 2020–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

1,229
grants reported: $145.7M
total given: 2020–2024
filing years: $50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2020–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

covid response freedom scholar community organizing award justice

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Multi-year general operating support for grassroots community organizing groups
Immigrant and refugee rights coalitions in the South and Southwest
Economic justice: tenant unions, debt, worker power, community capital
Freedom Scholar Awards of $250,000 to individual academics
Leadership development and civic advocacy infrastructure
Black-led and Indigenous-led organizations in the South and Plains

Typical grant

Median grant is $50,000 with the middle half between $15,000 and $150,000, but the money is concentrated at the top: $250,000 to $1,500,000 checks to organizing groups absorb most of the total. Big awards go to statewide or multistate organizing coalitions like Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, Florida Rising, and Scholars for Social Justice, usually as unrestricted general operating support. Small grants read more like one-time convening, event, or capacity support, and the same anchor grantees recur across years while the tail turns over.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“COMMUNITY ORGANIZING”
“ECONOMIC JUSTICE”
“LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT”
“FREEDOM SCHOLAR AWARD”

Positioning adjacent work

Connect scholarship to their organizing grantees, not to a discipline. They fund Scholars for Social Justice at $1.5M.
Ask for unrestricted general operating support, not project funds. Almost every large check is coded that way.
Frame economic justice work around tenants, debt, and worker power, matching Debt Collective and Tenant Union Federation.
Note the Freedom Scholar Award is a $250,000 individual honor they confer, so build relationships rather than pitching it.

Worth knowing: California, Washington, Illinois, and DC hold nearly half the recipients, but the largest single grants increasingly go South and to swing states: Alabama, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky. The 2024 record shows a shift toward fewer, much bigger unrestricted awards to established organizing coalitions, which means new entrants are more likely to start in the $15,000 to $150,000 band and grow through repeat funding.

1 grant matching “foraker” · $25,000

$25,000
The Foraker Group · Anchorage, AK · 2020
Project support for educational support of public health proposal.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tides Foundation19 grants · $3.8M
Tides Center11 grants · $2.8M
Center for Economic Research and Social Change10 grants · $2.2M
Majority Action2 grants · $2.1M
Kentucky Coalition6 grants · $2.0M
Florida Rising Together8 grants · $1.9M
Arizona Center for Empowerment7 grants · $1.8M
Florida Immigrant Coalition7 grants · $1.8M
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois3 grants · $1.7M
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (Cope)7 grants · $1.7M

Giving over time

$32.0M

2020

$45.8M

2022

$34.8M

2023

$33.0M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 1,229 grants.

$1.5M
Buildus · Washington, DC · 2024
Advocacy
$1.5M
Scholars for Social Justice · Chicago, IL · 2024
Community organizing
$1.5M
Crossroads Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
Community organizing
$1.5M
Majority Action · Silver Spring, MD · 2023
Economic justice
$1.5M
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Chicago, IL · 2022
Support for the portal project of the social justice initiative at uic
$1.5M
Center for Economic Research and Social Change · Chicago, IL · 2022
For the purposes of haymarket books
$1.5M
Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2022
General operating support
$1.5M
The Regents of the University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Support for the ucla luskin institute on inequality and democracy
$1.0M
University of Maryland Foundation · Adelphi, MD · 2020
Project support for the umbc hrabowski community service scholarships.
$900,000
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (Tirrc) · Nashville, TN · 2024
General operating support
$833,334
Foot Soldiers Park · Selma, AL · 2023
General operating support
$833,333
Foot Soldiers Park · Selma, AL · 2024
General operating support
$750,000
Native Americans in Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$750,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Advocacy
$750,000
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Community organizing
$750,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Provide support for up to three (3) public dollars for public good senior fellowships
$750,000
Native Americans in Philanthropy · Washington, DC · 2022
Project support for sovereignty match fund
$750,000
New Venture Fund · Washington Dc, DC · 2022
Support the black radical magazine project
$720,900
Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education · Albany, GA · 2023
General operating support
$650,000
Craft3 · Astoria, OR · 2022
General support
$650,000
Living Cities · Washington, DC · 2022
Support for its activest project
$650,000
Majority Action · Silver Spring, MD · 2022
General support
$650,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
Support for upstart co-lab
$635,000
National Trust for Local News · Lexington, MA · 2023
General operating support
$600,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Economic justice
$500,000
Arizona Center for Empowerment · Phoenix, AZ · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Black Leaders Organizing for Communities Education Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Community organizing
$500,000
Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (Cope) · San Bernardino, CA · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Immigrant Coalition · Miami, FL · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition · Orlando, FL · 2024
Education
$500,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Freedom · Madison, WI · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Justice Catalyst Access Fund · Charlottesville, VA · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Leaders Igniting Transformation Education Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
Community organizing
$500,000
More Perfect Union Foundation · Alexandria, VA · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
The Hana Center · Chicago, IL · 2024
General operating support
$500,000
Unemployed Workers United · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Community organizing
$500,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Arizona Center for Empowerment · Phoenix, AZ · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (Cope) · San Bernardino, CA · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Immigrant Coalition · Miami, FL · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition · Orlando, FL · 2023
Advocacy
$500,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Freedom · Madison, WI · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Kc Tenants · Kansas City, MO · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Leaders Igniting Transformation Education Fund · Milwaukee, WI · 2023
Community organizing
$500,000
The Hana Center · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operating support
$500,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Community organizing
$500,000
Alliance for Youth Organizing · Washington, DC · 2022
Project support for leaders igniting transformation education fund
$500,000
Arizona Center for Empowerment · Phoenix, AZ · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Communities United · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Congregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement (Cope) · San Bernardino, CA · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Immigrant Coalition · Miami, FL · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Florida Rising Together · Miami, FL · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Freedom · Madison, WI · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Kentucky Coalition · London, KY · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Seattle Arts and Lectures · Seattle, WA · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
The Hana Center · Chicago, IL · 2022
General operating support
$500,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Project support for black leaders organizing for communities
$500,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Project support for florida rights restoration coalition
$500,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Project support for center for working families fund
$474,300
Kc Tenants · Kansas City, MO · 2024
General operating support
$450,000
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Community organizing
$450,000
Workers Lab · Oakland, CA · 2022
General operating support
$425,000
Lavender Rights Project · Tacoma, WA · 2022
General support
$418,750
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice · Baton Rouge, LA · 2024
Community organizing
$418,750
Southerners On New Ground · Atlanta, GA · 2024
General operating support
$418,750
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · San Antonio, TX · 2024
General operating support
$418,750
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice · Baton Rouge, LA · 2023
Community organizing
$418,750
Southerners On New Ground · Atlanta, GA · 2023
General operating support
$418,750
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · San Antonio, TX · 2023
General operating support
$418,750
Power Coalition for Equity and Justice · Baton Rouge, LA · 2022
Project support for power coalition
$418,750
Southerners On New Ground · Atlanta, GA · 2022
General operating support
$418,750
Texas Organizing Project Education Fund · San Antonio, TX · 2022
General operating support
$416,750
Dream Defenders · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Community organizing
$416,750
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Community organizing
$416,750
Tides Center · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Project support for dream defenders
$400,500
Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education · Albany, GA · 2024
General operating support
$400,000
Maine People'S Resource Center · Portland, ME · 2024
General operating support
$400,000
People'S Budget Birmingham · Birmingham, AL · 2024
Community organizing
$400,000
Freedom Project · Renton, WA · 2022
General support
$382,897
Young Women Empowered · Seattle, WA · 2022
General support
$375,000
Change Labs · Tuba City, AZ · 2024
General operating support
$375,000
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta · Norcross, GA · 2023
General operating support
$375,000
Inner-City Muslim Action Network · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operating support
$375,000
La Union Del Pueblo Entero · San Juan, TX · 2023
General operating support
$375,000
Logan Square Neighborhood Association Dba Palenque Lsna · Chicago, IL · 2023
General operating support
$375,000
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Atlanta · Norcross, GA · 2022
General operating support
$375,000
Inner-City Muslim Action Network · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$375,000
La Union Del Pueblo Entero · San Juan, TX · 2022
General operating support
$375,000
Logan Square Neighborhood Association Dba Palenque Lsna · Chicago, IL · 2022
General support
$353,200
Firelands Workers United · Seattle, WA · 2024
Community organizing
$350,000
Debt Collective · New York, NY · 2024
Economic justice
$350,000
Fair Food Network · Detroit, MI · 2024
General operating support
$350,000
Industrial Commons · Morganton, NC · 2024
General operating support

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