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Charitable Foundation USA
Supporting charitable causes by sharing gifts with and issuing grants to various charities and non-profit organizations throughout the United States, and administering donor advised funds, charitable endowments and charitable remainder trusts.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $127,274 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $177,020 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,746 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chaminade College Preparatory School | $50,074 |
| Friends of the Mandeville Diocese Inc | $16,000 |
| Nerinx Hall High School | $15,000 |
| After The Harvest | $10,800 |
| St Mary Church Hyde Park | $10,800 |
| St Helena Montessori School | $10,800 |
| Inspire Inc | $8,000 |
| Prospect House Inc | $5,800 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SHSt Helena Montessori School Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $67k · revenue +85%
- CCCHAMINADE COLLEGE PREPARATORY2× · 2023–2024 · $58k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DAYTON6× · 2018–2024 · $56k
Funded once
- LRLASALLE RETREAT CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PPPETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +190%
- SMSt Marys Church - Hyde Parkone grant, 2022 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.
Catholic Worker Hospitality House exists to serve the needs of low-income and homeless individuals through the direct practice of the Works of Mercy -- feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, visiting the sick and imprisoned, clothing…
Provide holistic housing and supportive services to individuals impacted by the carceral system.
Shelter for Homeless Men
Clelian center is a certified medical model adult day center that has served hamden, ct and the greater new haven area for 37 years.
Partners for Affordable Housing is missioned to provide shelter for homeless families and individuals and help them secure economically viable long term housing. The Organization owns and operates a number of scattered site housing…
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
Our mission is to support Catholic (and other Christian) ministry leaders in their efforts to (1) train, coach, and equip parents to become the primary voice that passes faith on to their children, and (2) assist their members to integrate…
Sunshine ministries is committed to providing high-quality christian social services to the poor and needy of st. louis by offering healing from the past, help for the present and hope for the future. see schedule o for continuation.
Harvest Home transforms the lives of unhoused, pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers. In December 2024, Harvest Home welcomed our first family (pregnant woman…
For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.
Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is Readworksinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds St Helena Montessori School Inc ↗
- Who funds VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds INSPIREINC ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds PETER & PAUL COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK CENTER ↗
- Who funds READWORKSINC ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND MENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Prospect House Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The John C Griswold Family Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Charitable Foundation USA 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.
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
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.
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