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Charity Challenge Inc

Fund raising activities to benefit local charities

$165k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$107kRecreation & Sports$78kHealth$31kArts & Culture$12kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$9kEducation$5kCivil Rights$5kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $95,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $164,781 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $69,281 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EPILEPSY ASSN OF CENTRAL FL$30,500
UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FL$12,000
CITY OF ORLANDO CHARITIES$10,000
ORLANDO MINORITY YOUTH GOLF ASSN$10,000
RECOVERY HOUSE OF CENTRAL FL$9,600
FLA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION$9,500
KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE$8,525
SEMINOLE CO SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,375
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 (FY22–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE: $9k → 11%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 6 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$450k
$20k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    5× · 2017–2021 · $274k
  • CO
    CITY OF ORLANDO CHARITIES
    4× · 2017–2022 · $53k
  • FH
    FL HOSP FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $43k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • TF
    TOTAL FREEDOM PROG
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $273,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY OF ORLANDO CHARITIES: $52,761 · OtherCITY OF ORLANDO CHARITIESFL HOSP FOUNDATION: $42,576 · OtherFL HOSP FOUNDATIONORLANDO MINORITY YOUTH GOLF ASSN: $40,000 · OtherORLANDO MINORITY YOUTH GOLF ASSNFLA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $28,500 · OtherFLA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION+4 more: $32,400 · Other+4 moreTHE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC D/B/A EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $30,500 · HealthRECOVERY HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA I: $9,600 · HealthUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · Recreation & SportsKIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC: $8,525 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,375 · Education
Other$470,037Health$40,100Arts & Culture$12,000Recreation & Sports$9,500Human Services$8,525Education$5,375

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC D/B/A EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION: $30,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetUNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERY HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA I: $9,600 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetKIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC: $8,525 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,375 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC D/B/A EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY HOUSE OF CENTRAL FLORIDA I ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA CITRUS SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KIDS HOUSE OF SEMINOLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SEMINOLE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Charity Challenge Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charity Challenge Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Kids House of Seminole Inc: 10% of income from government
  • United Arts of Central Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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