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Charleigh Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $181k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST RIVER COMMUNITY PROJECT | $130,527 |
| FOOD CONNECTS | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $42,500 |
| WHOLESOME WAVE | $33,333 |
| WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION | $32,500 |
| THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND | $30,000 |
| NOFA VT | $25,000 |
| WILLISTEAD MANOR INC | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA AM ALUMNI ASS OF PALM BEACH | $20,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS | $20,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $16,420 |
| HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
| LEAVE IT BETTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| USA for UNFPA | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Charleigh Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- TWTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $187k · revenue +63%
- TMThurgood Marshall College Fund4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +28%
- ROReal Organic Project Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- SCSUNDRY CONTRIBUTIONS SMALL AMOUNTSone grant, 2020 · $64k
- TETRUE EATS LOCAL FOOD EDUCATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -91%
- MOMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUSTone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -6%
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.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
Advancing relationships among farmers, chefs, and consumers to grow markets and eat more locally grown food.
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The northeast organic farming association of vermont promotes organic practices to build an ecomnomically viable, ecologically sound and socially just vermont agricultural system that benefits all living things.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The mission of vins is to motivate individuals and communities to care for the environment through education, research, and avian wildlife rehabilitation.
To cultivate connection, share resources, and amplify the voices of people of color in vermont within the focus areas of land, environ- ment, agriculture, and foodways. liberation ecosystem, inc. is a col- laborative ecosystem for growing…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Provide the latest science-based nutrition information and research to a variety of audiences, develop effective and exciting nutrition and wellness programs, and educate consumers, media, educators, school administrators and health…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
88 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. 88 of the 150 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 CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds Real Organic Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds USA FOR UNFPA INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds HURU INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOOD FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Nicholas Pedone Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRUE EATS LOCAL FOOD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds AGRITECH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGERIAN SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
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 Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Novo Foundation · Onufrychuk Family Charitable Trust · The Sandy River Charitable Foundation · Thomas Thompson Trust · Forrest C & Frances H Lattner Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Clif Family 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 organization Charleigh Charitable Trust 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.
- Vermont Historical Society — 51% of income from government
- Agritech Institute for Small Farms Inc — 48% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Food Connects — 15% of income from government
- Sterling College — 10% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Townshend Historical Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Real Organic Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% 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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