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Capital Charities Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.6M
Granted FY2020
20
Grants FY2020
8
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k19 grants · $26k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.6M
$800
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETSY AND LEW LURIE FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND-FIDELITY CHARITABLE$2,563,667
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$7,000
PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE COUNTY$4,000
NEW HAVEN READS$3,000
INDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREGATION$2,000
CONGREGATION BETH AM$1,600
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$1,000
THE RAMP LESS TRAVELED FOUNDATION$1,000
JANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES$1,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$800
FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION$600
INDIANAPOLIS HUMANE SOCIETY$500
HAPPY HOLLOW CHILDRENS CAMP INC$500
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DANCE MARATHON$450
AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE$400
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $600 → 8%PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE COUNTY: $4k → 10%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $7k → 17%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $400 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA DANCE MARATHON: $450 → 15%NEW HAVEN READS: $3k → 12%JANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES: $1k → 5%INDIANAPOLIS HEBREW CONGREGATION: $2k → 16%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $800 → 9%BETSY AND LEW LURIE FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND-FIDELITY CHARITABLE: $2.6M → 11%CONGREGATION BETH AM: $2k → 8%TARBUT VTORAH: $200 → 10%AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE: $400 → 17%NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $400 → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $400 → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS: $1k → 16%YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICE: $400 → 8%THE RAMP LESS TRAVELED FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%HAPPY HOLLOW CHILDRENS CAMP INC: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
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
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

7
Pacific Collegiate School

Pacific collegiate school's mission is to provide exemplary, standards based college preparatory and fine arts education for public middle and high school students of santa cruz county and bordering areas.

Education
8
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

12
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for a College Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETSY AND LEW LURIE FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND-FIDELITY CHARITABLE — $2,563,667 · OtherBETSY AND LEW LURIE FAMILY CHARITABLE FUND-FIDELITY CHARITABLE+10 more — $14,350 · OtherPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE COUNTY INC — $4,000 · EducationNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC — $3,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $600 · EducationJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $1,000 · EmploymentJewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc — $1,000 · PhilanthropyHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $500 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $400 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $400 · InternationalNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $400 · Environment
Other$2,578,017Education$7,600Employment$1,000Philanthropy$1,000Recreation & Sports$500Youth Development$400International$400Environment$400

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ORANGE COUNTY INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJANUS DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPY HOLLOW CAMP INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Capital Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 13%
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Capital Charities Inc?

Find your warmest path to Capital Charities Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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