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Charina Endowment Fund Inc at a glance

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Charina Endowment Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$16MArts & Culture$15MHealth$8.7MCivil Rights$3.8MHuman Services$3.5MPhilanthropy$3.0MInternational$2.6MRecreation & Sports$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k41 grants · $5.8M
  • $250k+28 grants · $11M
$150,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$370M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$600,000
GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS$500,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY (FORMERLY NY ZOOLOGICAL SOC)$500,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$500,000
NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$500,000
TRUSTEES FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY$500,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$500,000
THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM$500,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$500,000
HARVARD TH CHAN SCHOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$500,000
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK$400,000
SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL$400,000
STATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC$334,000
PARK AVENUE ARMORYSEVENTH REG ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC$333,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA FRIENDS OF FOSTER CHILDREN: $250k → 11%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $150k → 21%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $150k → 14%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $200k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $250k → 20%EDUCARE DC: $150k → 14%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER: $150k → 16%SAFE HORIZON (FORMERLY VICTIM SERVICES): $450k → 17%UNITED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES OF NEW YORK: $75k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $750k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $200k → 17%COMPREHENSIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $150k → 17%SPENCE-CHAPIN SERVICES TO FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $100k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $300k → 17%THE JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $300k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $300k → 17%UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $150k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 42 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
115

Total granted

$30M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +23%
  • SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
  • TN
    THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COOPER UNION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.5M
  • TR
    THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $875k · revenue -14%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $750k · revenue +33%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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
4
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
5
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

—
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Penumbra Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 160 of the 201 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
160/160
Grantees still filing
101/160
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $2,500,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYACLU: $2,000,000 · OtherACLUTHE COOPER UNION: $1,500,000 · OtherTHE COOPER UNIONWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY (FORMERLY NY ZOOLOGICAL SOC): $1,000,000 · Other+79 more: $20,858,000 · Other+79 moreCornell University: $4,000,000 · EducationCornell UniversityPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,750,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITYTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHO…The Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,000,000 · EducationThe Pierpont Morgan LibraryTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $875,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · Education+25 more: $5,575,000 · Education+25 moreSHED NYC INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INCMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CIT…New York Historical Society: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historic…American Museum of Natural History: $500,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $500,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $450,000 · Arts & Culture+32 more: $5,409,000 · Arts & Culture+32 moreTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $750,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $300,000 · Human ServicesSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesGRAHAM WINDHAM: $250,000 · Human ServicesArizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation: $250,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $200,000 · Human ServicesSHELTERBOX USA INC: $175,000 · Human Services+8 more: $1,025,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $750,000 · InternationalTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $600,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $550,000 · InternationalSCHOLARS AT RISK INC: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE INC: $200,000 · International+4 more: $250,000 · InternationalNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $500,000 · PhilanthropyPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $300,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $225,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $450,000 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthFOOD & FRIENDS INC: $150,000 · HealthFoundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine Inc: $150,000 · HealthJupiter Medical Center Inc: $150,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR CHILDREN INC: $150,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · HealthUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · HealthMONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER: $100,000 · HealthBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $100,000 · HealthTHE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE: $100,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC: $85,000 · Health+1 more: $50,000 · Health
Other$27,858,000Education$17,150,000Arts & Culture$10,359,000Human Services$4,650,000International$3,200,000Philanthropy$3,025,000Health$2,035,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,750,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $1,500,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $875,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $750,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $750,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $750,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CRENULATED COMPANY LTD: $600,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE URBAN ASSEMBLY INC: $600,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $550,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $550,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $525,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees for Harvard University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COOPER UNION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE & ART: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $500,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS: $500,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $450,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $450,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $450,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $450,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $450,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRANDALL'S ISLAND PARK ALLIANCE INC: $350,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSTATUE OF LIBERTY ELLIS ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $334,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $300,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSCHOLARS AT RISK INC: $300,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charina Foundation In…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundBooth Ferris Foundati…Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…The Ford FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…May and Samuel Rudin …Altman FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…
Charina Foundation Inc Richard MenschelNY61.3× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Altman Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charina Endowment Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charina Endowment Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
45report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Charina Endowment Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charina Endowment Fund 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 201 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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