· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WILLISTEAD MANOR INC | $25,000 |
| NOFA VT | $25,000 |
| FLORIDA AM ALUMNI ASS OF PALM BEACH | $20,000 |
| COMMON ROOTS | $20,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $16,420 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| USA for UNFPA | $15,000 |
| LEAVE IT BETTER FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Charleigh Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 17% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 14%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- AHAFRICAN HERITAGE ECONOMIC INITIATIVone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TETRUE EATS LOCAL FOOD EDUCATION INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -91%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
88 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. 88 of the 149 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH FREEDOM DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNS COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds HURU INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Nicholas Pedone Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds TRUE EATS LOCAL FOOD EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds AGRITECH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGERIAN SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RURAL EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charleigh Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charleigh Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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