About Casement Fund
The Casement Fund concentrates its giving on education and youth-focused programs in New York City (notably Harlem) and a small number of repeat recipients. Its support blends traditional education (higher education and K–12 support) with arts and cultural education for young people, often providing multi-year or multiple grants to the same organizations. The foundation appears to prioritize hands-on, community-rooted initiatives that serve children and families in historically underserved neighborhoods.
Focus Areas
K–12 and out-of-school education programs serving Harlem youthArts education and performance programming for young people (e.g., Classical Theatre of Harlem)Community-based youth development and wraparound services (e.g., Harlem Children’s Zone)Support for higher education through targeted institutional grants (e.g., Drew University)
Who They Fund
Harlem / Upper Manhattan youthchildren and families in historically underserved NYC neighborhoodslow-income K–12 studentsyoung artists and youth performers
About Casement Fund
The Casement Fund Ltd repeatedly makes its largest recent grants to Drew University, awarding $34,500 in 2023, 2024, and 2025. That three-year pattern sits alongside a smaller but steady set of arts and education grants, showing a funder that combines institutional support with program-level backing for music, theater, and youth learning. In the recent record, the foundation’s giving reaches New York City organizations such as The Classical Theater of Harlem and Harlem Children’s Zone, while also supporting select higher-education institutions outside the city. The fund’s work centers on education, with a strong presence in Harlem and other New York City neighborhoods. Several grants are directed to organizations serving children, students, and young performers, and the repeated awards suggest long-term relationships rather than isolated gifts. At the same time, the grant list includes arts organizations and individual artists, indicating that education for this funder includes performance, creative practice, and cultural programming. The Casement Fund Ltd’s recent grantmaking is compact, recurring, and focused on a small number of named recipients.
What Casement Fund Funds
Education and youth programming are the clearest throughline in the recent grants. The Casement Fund Ltd gave $30,000 in 2025 to The Classical Theater of Harlem for education, and it supported Harlem Children's Zone with $24,000 in 2025 after earlier grants of $12,000 in 2023 and 2024. Arts education appears in both organizational and individual support. Experiments in Opera received $5,500 in 2023 and $4,500 in both 2024 and 2025, while Time Flies Circus received $5,000 in 2024. The record also includes grants to artists and arts groups such as Wayne Escoffery, On Site Opera, and Prototype, all coded as education. Higher education is another recurring line of support. Drew University received the funder’s largest repeated grant, and Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance also appears in the recent list with awards in 2024 and 2025.
How Casement Fund Gives
The Casement Fund Ltd’s grant sizes cluster from small awards to mid-sized institutional gifts. The stated distribution is p25 of $580, median of $2,000, and p75 of $12,750. Recent activity also shows repeated support to the same recipients across multiple years, especially for Drew University, Harlem Children's Zone, The Classical Theater of Harlem, Experiments in Opera, and Oratorio Society of New York. It is a regular funder, not a donor-advised fund, and it does not fund individuals. The pattern is concentrated rather than broad, with a limited set of recurring grantees receiving multiple awards over time.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$245K
Total Assets
$173K
Total Revenue
$161K
Total Expenses
$175K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $580 and $13K, with a median of $2K.
25th Percentile
$580
Median
$2K
75th Percentile
$13K
Geographic Reach
Regional3 states funded
About 75% of grants go to recipients in NY.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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