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Charles Caron Foundation at a glance

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Charles Caron Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$408k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$579kInternational$50kPhilanthropy$28kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $154k
$15,300
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christendom College$53,000
Belmont Abbey College$51,000
Notre Dame Academy$50,000
Chesterton Academy$26,400
Whitinsville Christian$26,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Sparhawk Academy$22,500
University of Mary$22,380
Saint Paul School$20,000
College of Saint Joseph$15,300
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Boston Trinity Academy$15,000
Foundation to Advance$12,500
Montrose School$12,000
Walsh University$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Sparhawk Academy: $24k → 7%Notre Dame Academy: $50k → 8%St Bridget Rectory: $5k → 8%Trivium School: $3k → 11%Advance Catholic Education: $15k → 11%Boston Trinity Academy: $15k → 16%Haiti180: $50k → 8%Belmont Abbey College: $51k → 12%Chesterton Academy: $26k → 7%St Raphael Academy: $9k → 14%Walsh University: $12k → 13%College of Saint Joseph: $15k → 19%College of Mary: $30k → 10%Christendom College: $53k → 10%Sparhawk Academy: $23k → 7%Saint Paul School: $25k → 8%St Benedict Classical: $14k → 8%Trivium School: $3k → 11%Foundation to Advance: $15k → 11%Saint Joseph's Prep: $8k → 16%St Raphael Academy: $9k → 14%Walsh University: $10k → 13%Franciscan University: $10k → 19%University of Mary: $22k → 10%Christendom College: $26k → 10%Sparhawk Academy: $13k → 7%Saint Paul School: $20k → 8%St Benedict Classical: $10k → 8%Trivium School: $1k → 11%Foundation to Advance: $13k → 11%Saint Joseph's Prep: $8k → 16%St Raphael Academy: $5k → 14%College of Mary: $16k → 10%St Edith Stein School: $10k → 10%Sparhawk Academy: $2k → 7%Saint Paul School: $10k → 8%St Benedict Classical: $5k → 8%Whitinsville Christian: $26k → 11%Mount Saint Charles Academy: $8k → 14%College of Mary: $8k → 10%Seton Home Study School: $2k → 10%Saint Paul's Church: $395 → 7%St Paul Parish: $25k → 8%Whitinsville Christian: $24k → 11%Catholic Appeal: $25k → 7%Montrose School: $12k → 7%Montrose School: $7k → 7%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 12 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$442k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-1%

Still filing today

42%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationReligionOther
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

  • CE
    CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $79k · revenue +22%
  • WU
    Walsh University Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $22k · revenue +7%
  • MF
    MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAITI180 INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • SP
    St Paul Parish
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • SE
    St Edith Stein School
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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

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.

1
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

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2
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
3
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
St Peter Catholic

St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.

Education
6
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
9
Trinity Collegiate School

To be a college preparatory school of academic excellence rooted in the faith, values and caring of the judeo-christian tradition.

Education
10
Chesterton Academy of Rochester

To partner with parents to raise a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical, liberal arts tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith. Students will abound in the skills and character requisite for success in…

Education
11
Pontifical College Josephinum

The Josephinum seeks to prepare priests for the new evangelization and to serve the pastoral needs of the Roman Catholic Church. The Josephinum provides resources to prepare candidates for the priesthood. The Josephinum shares its…

Education
12
Holy Cross College Inc

Holy Cross College is a Catholic, residential liberal arts college located in Notre Dame, Indiana and is part of a tri campus community that includes the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College. The College was founded in 1966 by…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan University of Steubenville; the most unlike its peers is HAITI180 Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sparhawk Academy: $61,100 · OtherSparhawk AcademySaint Paul School: $55,000 · OtherSaint Paul SchoolCollege of Mary: $53,370 · OtherCollege of MaryNOTRE DAME ACADEMY: $50,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME ACADEMYWHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherWHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFoundation to Advance: $27,500 · OtherFoundation to AdvanceChesterton Academy: $26,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherSt Paul Parish: $25,000 · OtherST RAPHAEL ACADEMY: $22,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,800 · Other+7 more: $61,095 · Other+7 moreCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $79,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORAT…BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $51,000 · EducationBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INCUniversity of Mary: $22,380 · EducationUniversity of MaryWalsh University Inc: $22,000 · EducationWalsh University IncMONTROSE FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 · EducationMONTROSE FOUNDATION INCBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INCFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationHAITI180 INC: $50,000 · Religion
Other$502,215Education$219,880Religion$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $79,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC: $51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAITI180 INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Mary: $22,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalsh University Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTROSE FOUNDATION INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRIVIUM SCHOOL INC: $7,400 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITI180 INC ↗
  • Who funds WHITINSVILLE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Mary ↗
  • Who funds Walsh University Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds TRIVIUM SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SETON HOME STUDY SCHOOL ↗

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.

Fidelity FoundationIbm International Fou…Raymond James Charita…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…
Fidelity FoundationMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Charles Caron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Caron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Boston Trinity Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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