About Jayne Cassella Foundation
The Jayne Cassella Foundation concentrates on North Georgia-focused human services with an emphasis on nursing education and veteran care. Major gifts fund undergraduate nursing programs and direct services for veterans (including catastrophically injured and homeless vets), while a portion of grants supports residential programs and life-skills services for at-risk girls. The foundation tends to make a few sizable, targeted grants rather than many small donations, and it repeats support for select organizations.
Focus Areas
Undergraduate nursing education at regional institutions (e.g., Kennesaw State, Lighthouse Family Retreat nursing program)Support for catastrophically injured veterans and families of fallen first respondersHomeless veterans services in Cherokee/North GeorgiaResidential group homes and life-skills programs for at-risk girls in North Georgia
Who They Fund
undergraduate nursing studentscatastrophically injured veteransfamilies of fallen first responders / Gold Star familiesfamilies caring for children with cancer
About Jayne Cassella Foundation
A named nursing scholarship and a repeating set of veteran and family-support grants define Jayne Cassella Foundation Inc. The foundation’s largest recent grant was $32,000 to Kennesaw State University Undergraduate Nursing Program Fund for undergraduate nursing education, and it has returned to the same school program in later years. It also made matching $27,013 grants in 2023 to Lighthouse Family Retreat and Tunnel to Towers Foundation, showing a pattern of sizable, targeted awards rather than broad, dispersed giving. Across the recent grants list, the foundation backs direct services for people in crisis: catastrophically injured veterans, families of fallen first responders and Gold Star families, homeless veterans, and girls living in a group home with housing and life-skills supports. Smaller awards extend that same practical orientation to hospice care, a handicap playground, and assistance for indigent families. The picture is of a local foundation using selective grants to support education, shelter, care, and family stabilization in North Georgia and nearby communities.
What Jayne Cassella Foundation Funds
Undergraduate nursing education is one of the clearest throughlines. The foundation gave $32,000 to Kennesaw State University Undergraduate Nursing Program Fund in 2025 and $5,400 to the same program in 2024, and it also supported Lighthouse Family Retreat with $27,013 in 2023 for an undergraduate nursing program. Veteran support is another major theme: Cherokee County Homeless Vets Program received $16,000 in 2025 for homeless veterans, after a $2,714 award in 2024 for the same purpose. Family assistance also appears in the grant list. Tunnel to Towers Foundation received $23,439 in 2024 and $27,013 in 2023 for catastrophically injured veterans and fallen first responder and Gold Star families. The foundation also made a $16,000 grant to North Georgia Angel House Inc for a group home for girls providing housing, life skills and strong supports.
How Jayne Cassella Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster in the low thousands to low tens of thousands, with p25 at $2,714, median at $7,700, and p75 at $23,439. The recent record shows repeat awards to the same organizations across multiple years, including Kennesaw State University Undergraduate Nursing Program Fund, Lighthouse Family Retreat, Tunnel to Towers Foundation, Cherokee County Homeless Vets Program, and Trinity Church of Marble Hill Inc. That repetition points to a selective, relationship-based pattern rather than one-off experimentation. The foundation is a private foundation; it does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. Unsolicited applications are not indicated in the data provided.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$198K
Total Assets
$28K
Total Revenue
$77K
Total Expenses
$86K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $3K and $23K, with a median of $8K.
25th Percentile
$3K
Median
$8K
75th Percentile
$23K
Geographic Reach
Local2 states funded
About 88% of grants go to recipients in GA.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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