How much did CHARIS FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of CHARIS FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

disasterlearningx-rayboysgirlsemploymentcasa

2019

cancergrowingportlandgardeningkitchensheltertraining

2020

covid crisisautismfood covidhirecreekparentingmen's

2021

at-risknurseryswimgedclinicsplacepet crates

2022

riskmothersfeedingveteransessentialmemory annetteannette dobbins

2023

case managementalsgroupsstememergency shelterafterschoolresource

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

TUALATIN FOOD PANTRY$7,500
SONOMA FAMILY MEAL$7,500
NAT SOCIETY EQUINE FACILITATED THER$7,500
PORTLAND RESCUE MISSION$7,500
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT FOOD BANK$7,500
FRIENDLY KITCHEN$7,500
NEXT CHAPTER FOUNDATION$7,500
URBAN GLEANERS$7,500
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS$7,500
TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT$7,500
RIVER CITY FOOD BANK$7,500
AHAT HOMECARE$7,500
ST STEPHEN HOUSING ASSOCIATION$7,500
SOS$7,500
PLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND$7,500

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 46% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.4M · 110 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

110 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 86 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110

195

Total granted

$1.4M

$982k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+63%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

CS
CLAY STREET TABLE
4× · 2019–2023 · $26k · revenue +53%
AO
ACRES OF DIAMONDS
5× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +180%
SC
SPIN CAFE
4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +399%

Funded once

F(
FISH (FRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING)
one grant, 2019 · $10k
CO
COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +158%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHENgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1417%

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

04Your 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.

Nourish Pierce County

To provide food to individuals in need with compassion, dignity and respect. No one needing assistance is turned away.

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Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation

Education

Skagit Valley Hospitality House

To reflect the heart of God by feeding, sheltering, clothing, healing and empowering those in need.

Housing & Shelter

Family Promise of Spokane

Provide overnight shelter, day center, meals and transportation to homeless families in Spokane County.

Religion

Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter

Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services

LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services

Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter

Family Promise of Tualatin Valley

To provide families and individuals experiencing homelessness temporary emergency shelter with intensive case management support while they work toward the goal of safe, stable and affordable housing.

Human Services

Path Home

To empower homeless families with children to get back into housing - and to stay there.

Housing & Shelter

Wayfinder Family Services

Wayfinder's mission is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Group Homes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Treehouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/211

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,354

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

206 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

101

Early backer (in before they grew)

203/206

Grantees still filing

179/206

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,386,017Human Services$559,300Health$304,950Food & Nutrition$174,000Crime & Legal$82,000Housing & Shelter$78,045Youth Development$71,000

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

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.

Marie Lamfrom Charitable FoundationOR73.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lucky Seven Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall

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 organisation CHARIS FUND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

32get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALMA COMMUNITY CARE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 8.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814296647 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ALMA COMMUNITY CARE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 77% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Charis Fund?

Find your warmest path to Charis Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHARIS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

206 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charis Fund?

More from the funding graph

CHARIS FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

206 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charis Fund?

More from the funding graph