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· Public charity
CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA
Supporting philanthropy throughout the United States by administering charitable endowments, charitable remainder trusts and donor advised funds, including sharing/issuing gifts and grants with other charities.
$177k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
5
Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of CHARITABLE FOUNDATION USA’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.
02FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,800
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- 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
02The need
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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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$438k · 15 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
15
12
Total granted
$438k
$94k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+1%
+27%
Still filing today
33%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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 +104%
- CCChaminade College Preparatory School2× · 2023–2024 · $58k
- NHNerinx Hall4× · 2018–2022 · $39k
Funded once
- LSLa Salle Retreat Centerone grant, 2021 · $15k
- PPPeter & Paul Community Services Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $14k · revenue +135%
- 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.
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.
1
Pastoral Center
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…
Religion
2
St Martins Chamber Choir
St. Martin's Chamber Choir performs classical choral music to the highest professional standards, and inspires appreciation of the choral art by educating audiences and the wider community through the presentation of both beloved choral…
Arts & Culture
3
Paulist Press Inc
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
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4
Mother Seton Housing Inc
To support single parents on their journey towards self-sufficiency
Housing & Shelter
5
Divine Mercy Ministries Inc
The Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age or older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
Religion
6
Magnificat Houses Inc
Magnificat Houses, Inc. offers a welcoming community where those needing housing, food and mental health programs can grow in stability, productivity and independence.
Health
7
Harvest Home Inc
Harvest Home transforms the lives of homeless, pregnant women and their children by providing housing, support, and programs that equip women to become great mothers.
Human Services
8
St Patrick Partnership Center
To transform lives through sustainable housing, employment and healthcare, following the compassion of jesus.
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9
Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth
Epiphany Center strengthens family life through programs faithful to the beliefs of the Catholic Church, rooted in Judeo-Christian values and the tradition of service of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
Human Services
10
St John Paul Ii Life Center
Providing integrated ob-gyn healthcare, fertilitycare, and pregnancy help services for all women while honoring life.
Health
11
Magnum Chorum
High quality performances of sacred choral music in beautiful venues that transform listeners in concert and worship and nurture a deeper connection with God and one another.
Arts & Culture
12
St Augustine Manor
St. Augustine Manor dba St. Augustine Health Ministries provides skilled nursing and community based services including; early education and child day care, assisted living, rehabilitation, long-term care, home care and hospice care.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Patrick Center and the most unlike its peers is Mary Mother of the Church. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$470,398Arts & Culture$27,200Health$20,600Housing & Shelter$14,280Philanthropy$13,500Education$8,200
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 After the Harvest ↗
- Who funds Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Inspire Inc ↗
- Who funds Peter & Paul Community Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Mary Mother of the Church ↗
- Who funds St Patrick Center ↗
- Who funds Readworks Inc ↗
- 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.
The John C Griswold Family FoundationDE15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The John C Griswold Family Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 organisation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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: Mary Mother of the Church.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300258329 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 Mary Mother of the Church, 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.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 54% 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 Charitable Foundation USA?
Find your warmest path to Charitable Foundation USA 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines