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Charis Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$453k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
74
Grants FY2025
72
Organizations funded FY2024
61%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
59 to 86
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Charis Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving73$453k66%
FY202472$414k61%
FY202376$398k62%
FY202283$436k59%
FY202186$430k58%
FY202059$312k53%
FY201960$320k75%
FY201874$348kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$693kHealth$584kFood & Nutrition$483kHousing & Shelter$437kYouth Development$345kCrime & Legal$148kEducation$82kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
OR
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IA
PA
CA
MD
AZ
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 305 grantees
All grantees of Charis Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Clay Street Table$25,50044%
Acres of Diamonds$25,00050%
Casa of Clackamas County$25,00051%
La Pine Community Kitchen$25,00032%
Emilio Nares Foundation$25,00041%
Spin Cafe$25,00045%
The Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco$24,50031%
Food for Thought$22,50040%
Assistance League of Greater Portland$22,50041%
Friends of Youth$21,50040%
The Insight Alliance$21,00043%
The Sophia Way$21,00040%
White Pony Express$20,00030%
Compass House Inc$20,00031%
Greater Maple Valley Community Center$20,00041%
Bridge Receiving Center$20,00042%
Yakima Valley Council on Alcoholism$18,50030%
Kindred Partners$18,00931%
Green Plate Special$18,00041%
Friends of the Children$18,00040%
Salem Free Clinics$17,90031%
Elizabeth Home$17,50021%
Free Clinic of Southwest Washington$17,50031%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$17,50020%
St Francis House$17,50031%
Committee on the Shelterless$16,50020%
Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc$16,50030%
Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc$16,00030%
Growing Gardens$16,00031%
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc$16,00022%
The Greenhouse Project$16,00034%
Raphael House of Portland$15,50030%
Arlington Education Foundation$15,00038%
Nami Washington$15,00030%
Friends of the Children - Seattle$15,00030%
Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa$15,00030%
Safe Harbor Free Clinic$15,00031%
Steps$15,00030%
Byrd Barr Place$15,00030%
Loved Twice$15,00021%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,00020%
Impact Nw$15,00030%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$15,00020%
Congregations for the Homeless$15,00030%
Geeking Out Kids of Color$15,00021%
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center$14,00030%
Assist$13,50031%
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless$13,00030%
Bread of Life Mission$13,00030%
Child Advocacy Center of Snohomish County$13,00030%
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County$12,50020%
Homeless Childrens Network$12,50030%
Saint John's Program for Real Change$12,50030%
In Our Backyard$12,50022%
Portland Rescue Mission$12,5002n/a
Cancer Lifeline$12,50020%
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy$12,50020%
Whatcom Center for Early Learning$12,50020%
Operation Dignity Inc$12,50020%
Whidbey Island Hospital Foundation$12,50021%
Store to Door$12,50020%
Monument Impact$12,50020%
Boys and Girls Clubs of King County$12,50030%
Square Peg Foundation$12,50021%
Youthnet$12,00030%
Boys and Girls Club of Vista Inc$11,50030%
Rahab's Sisters$11,00022%
Street Youth Minitries$11,0002n/a
Sacramento Loaves & Fishes$11,00020%
Villages of San Mateo County$11,00022%
Kinship House$11,00020%
Compassion Connect Inc$10,50030%
North Beach Citizens$10,00011%
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles$10,00021%
Friends of Zenger Farm$10,00020%
Stanwood-Camano Food Bank Services$10,00020%
Highline Medical Center Foundation$10,00021%
The Friendship Circle of Washington$10,00020%
Safe Crossings Foundation$10,00021%
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families$10,00020%
Kids and Paper$10,00022%
Lifeline Connections$10,00020%
Refugee Womens Alliance$10,00020%
Parrott Creek Child and Family Services$10,00020%
Project 48 Inc$10,000212%
PAX Learning Center$10,00021%
Family Building Blocks Inc$10,00020%
Operation Nightwatch Inc$10,00020%
King County Library System Foundation$10,00020%
Swan Vocational Enterprises$10,00021%
Everett Gospel Mission$10,00020%
Mental Health Advocacy Services Inc$10,00020%
Agape Village$10,00023%
New Horizons Ministries$10,00020%
We Care Services For Children$10,00020%
BELONG Partners$10,00020%
Clackamas Women's Services$10,00020%
Washington Healthcare Access Alliance$10,00023%
Washington Kids in Transition$10,00020%
Raven Rock Ranch$10,00021%
Seattle Cares Circle of the National Cares Mentoring Movement$10,00022%
Program for Torture Victims$10,00020%
The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon$10,00020%
Casa of Los Angeles$10,00020%
Wellspring Family Services$10,00020%
Shepherd's House Ministries$9,54520%
Wespark Inc$9,00021%
East Bay Agency for Children$9,00020%
Portland YouthBuilders$9,00020%
Second Chance Outreach Hope for Homies$9,00021%
Max Higbee Community Recreation Center$9,00021%
Vision House$9,00020%
YWCA of Greater Portland$9,00020%
Incight Company$8,00020%
Bainbridge Youth Services$8,00021%
Veteran Rites Inc$8,00022%
Urban Gleaners$7,50010%
Overlake Service League$7,50010%
Helping Hands Resources$7,5001n/a
Eileen & Callies Place$7,50013%
University District Service League$7,50010%
Hope Hangar Inc$7,5001n/a
Victor Valley Domestic Violence Inc$7,50011%
Food for People Inc$7,50010%
Clatsop Community Action$7,50010%
Z Girls Foundation$7,50012%
Bear Yuba Land Trust$7,50010%
Northeast Youth and Family Services$7,5001n/a
Angel Flight West Inc$7,50010%
FISH Food Bank$7,50011%
Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation$7,50010%
Orcas Community Resource Center$7,50010%
Encompass Northwest$7,50020%
Family Promise of Metro East$7,50012%
Love-A-Child Missions$7,50012%
St Stephen Housing Association$7,50011%
River City Food Bank$7,50010%
Hood River Senior Citizens Inc$7,5001n/a
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County$7,50010%
Family Connections Centers$7,50010%
Leadership Launch$7,50018%
Next Chapter Foundation$7,5001n/a
Food Finders Inc$7,5001n/a
Humboldt Soups On$7,5001n/a
Healing California$7,50011%
Battle Ground Healthcare$7,50011%
Healthy Rural California Inc$7,5001n/a
Sonoma Family Meal$7,50011%
AHAT Homecare$7,50011%
Extrafood$7,50010%
Nami Santa Clara County$7,50010%
Helping Hand Worldwide$7,50011%
Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project$7,50010%
San Francisco Safehouse$7,50010%
Silverton Area Community Aid Inc$7,50010%
Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service Center$7,50010%
Community Youth Center$7,5001n/a
The Friendly Kitchen$7,50011%
Interfaith Food Center$7,00010%
Jacobs Heart Childrens Cancer Support Services$7,0001n/a
LifeWire$7,00020%
Safe Shelter for Siuslaw Students$7,00015%
The Mockingbird Society$7,00020%
Yakima Free Clinic$6,5001n/a
Casa Serena$6,50020%
Youth Homes Inc$6,30010%
Yakima Neighborhood Health Services$6,20010%
The Fid Group Friends in Deed$6,00410%
Womens Cancer Resource Center$6,00010%
Project Lifelong$6,00014%
Mama's Hands Dba Mamma's Hands$6,0001n/a
Outgrowing Hunger$6,00012%
Bright Futures for Youth$6,00010%
Be A Mentor Inc$6,00011%
Friends of the Children Incorporated$5,50013%
Venice Family Clinic$5,25010%
Constructing Hope Pre-Apprenticeship Program$5,0001n/a
Swim Up Hill Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
Whatcom Family Young Men's Christian Association$5,00010%
Mid Lane Cares$5,00011%
ALMA Community Care$5,000177%
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County$5,00010%
Arc Portland Metro Arc Portland Metro$5,00011%
Dress for Success Oregon$5,00011%
A Better Way Inc$5,00010%
Feeding Washington$5,00010%
Step by Step Family Support Center$5,00010%
Building Healthy Families$5,00010%
Harvest Against Hunger$5,00010%
Trinity Center Walnut Creek$5,00010%
Attain Housing$5,00010%
Butte County Local Food Network$5,00012%
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon$5,0001n/a
Ywam Faith Harvest Helpers$5,0001n/a
Mesa Independent Living$5,00011%
Union Gospel Mission Association of Salem$5,0001n/a
Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine$5,00010%
The Prison Scholar Fund$5,00010%
Fresh Start Surgical Gifts$5,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc$5,00010%
Okizu Foundation$5,00010%
Arlington Kids Kloset$5,00013%
Unbridled Spirit 7$5,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northw$5,00010%
Casa of Polk County Inc$5,00012%
Curry Community Cares Inc$5,00017%
Community Education Partnerships$5,00011%
Orangewood Foundation$5,00010%
Multicultural Child and Family Hope Center$5,00010%
Organic Soup Kitchen$5,00010%
The Rivers Edge Ranch$5,00010%
Casa of Central Oregon$5,00011%
Contra Costa Foster Friends$5,00014%
FosterHope Sacramento$5,00010%
Treehouse$5,00010%
Pasadena Humane$5,0001n/a
Family Access Network Foundation$5,00010%
Unity Shelter$5,00010%
Qigong Sensory Training Institute$5,00012%
Riverside Meals on Wheels Inc$5,00011%
Mid-Columbia Health Foundation$5,00010%
Our Streets$5,00010%
Center for the Pacific-Asian Family Inc$5,00010%
Earle Baum Center of the Blind Inc$5,00010%
Nami Southwest Washington$5,00011%
Tools for Peace$5,00013%
Ballard Food Bank$5,00010%
Housing Consortium of the East Bay$5,00010%
Supporting the Taylor House Inc$5,00012%
Meals on Wheels Diablo Region$5,00010%
Foodcycle$5,00010%
Borland Free Clinic$5,00011%
Transition Projects Inc$5,00010%
Contra Costa Interfaith Transitional Housing Inc$5,00010%
Eagles Nest Community Kitchen$5,0001n/a
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired$5,00010%
Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc$5,00010%
Care Partners$5,00010%
Child Care Action Council of Thurston County$5,00010%
Snoqualmie Valley Shelter Services$5,00011%
La Family Housing Corporation$5,00010%
David's Harp 930771871$5,00016%
Anka Behavioral Health Inc$5,0001n/a
Pathfinders of Oregon$5,00010%
Responder Life$5,00011%
New Phoebe House$5,0001n/a
The Young Women's Christian Association of Sonoma County$5,00010%
Returning Veterans Project$5,00011%
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc$5,00010%
Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry$5,0001n/a
Inland Valley Council of Churches$5,0001n/a
California Clubhouse DBA Aspire House$5,00011%
Dress for Success Seattle$5,00011%
Columbia County Child Abuse Assessm$5,00010%
The Commons Law Center$5,00011%
Sumner Community Food Bank$5,00010%
Truckee Donner Land Trust$5,0001n/a
The Alano Club of Portland Oregon$5,0001n/a
Childrens Center$5,00010%
Soaring Heights Recovery Homes$5,00010%
Roots Young Adult Shelter$5,0001n/a
Jefferson County Faith Based Network$5,00011%
Oregon Food Bank$5,00010%
Florence Food Share$5,00010%
Heritage Group Homes Inc$5,00010%
Friends of the Carpenter$5,00012%
Rescue Mission Alliance$5,00010%
Family Promise of Los Angeles$5,00010%
Union Gospel Mission$5,0001n/a
Deschutes Rim Clinic Foundation$5,00010%
Ecology in Classrooms and Outdoors$5,0001n/a
West Tuality Habitat for Humanity$5,00011%
Western Nevada College Foundation$5,00010%
Bridgeways$5,00010%
AIDS Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area$5,00010%
Anew$5,00011%
Children and Youth Justice Center$5,00010%
Grow Portland$5,0001n/a
Millennia Ministries$5,00011%
Pizza Klatch$5,00011%
New Beginnings$5,00010%
Outside In$5,00010%
Community Passageways$5,00010%
Abundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc$4,50011%
Compass Outreach Inc$4,50010%
Transitionsmental Health Association$4,50010%
Pdx Diaper Bank$4,0001n/a
Homework Central$4,00012%
My Fathers House$4,00010%
Merry Heart Children's Camp$4,00018%
Adaptive Sports Northwest$4,00011%
Way Back Inn Foundation$3,60012%
Casa of Linn County Inc$3,00011%
Penny's Place$3,0001n/a
Casa for Children Inc$3,00010%
Vine Maple Place$3,00010%
American Conservatory Theatre Foundation$2,50010%
Neurotherapeutic Pediatric Therapies Inc$2,5001n/a
Center for Growth in Wholeness$2,5001n/a
Lewis County Autism Coalition$2,50012%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$2,50010%
Farmers Market Fund$2,5001n/a
Farestart$2,5001n/a
Crisis Connections$2,50010%
Celebration Tabernacle$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($489k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Charis Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClay Street Table: $25,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCasa of Clackamas County: $25,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLa Pine Community Kitchen: $25,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSpin Cafe: $25,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco: $24,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFood for Thought: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAssistance League of Greater Portland: $22,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Youth: $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Insight Alliance: $21,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetThe Sophia Way: $21,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWhite Pony Express: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCompass House Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGreater Maple Valley Community Center: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBridge Receiving Center: $20,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYakima Valley Council on Alcoholism: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKindred Partners: $18,009 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGreen Plate Special: $18,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Children: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSalem Free Clinics: $17,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetElizabeth Home: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFree Clinic of Southwest Washington: $17,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Francis House: $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCommittee on the Shelterless: $16,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Corvallis Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Gardens: $16,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Greenhouse Project: $16,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetRaphael House of Portland: $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetArlington Education Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetNami Washington: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Children - Seattle: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Harbor Free Clinic: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSteps: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetByrd Barr Place: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLoved Twice: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImpact Nw: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRedwood Empire Food Bank: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCongregations for the Homeless: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeeking Out Kids of Color: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLittle Bit Therapeutic Riding Center: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAssist: $13,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFeeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Autzen FoundationOR96.4× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

Compare Charis Fund with peer funders

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How do I get to Charis Fund?

Find your warmest path to Charis Fund 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.

About Charis Fund

How much does Charis Fund give?
Charis Fund reported 74 grants totaling $452,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 59 and 86 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charis Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Health (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%).
Who are Charis Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Clay Street Table ($26k), Acres of Diamonds ($25k), Casa of Clackamas County ($25k).
Does Charis Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charis Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charis Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Autzen Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Charis Fund based?
Charis Fund is based in OR.

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 389 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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