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Charles Family Charitable Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COPLEY SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| CAPE ANN MUSEUM | $16,000 |
| VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| ROCKPORT MUSIC | $6,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SAWYER FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION | $4,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND | $2,500 |
| GLOUCESTER STAGE | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS | $2,000 |
| CAPE ANN ART HAVEN | $2,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CAPE ANN ANIMAL AID | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +164%
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +58%
GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- JMJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -7%
- GGGENEROUS GARDENERS INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -17%
- AFALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
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.
Foster the creation and appreciation of the fine arts by holding art exhibitions; conducting educational programs; acquiring and displaying a permanent collection of representational cape ann works of art; maintaining and preserving our…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To foster the visual arts on nantucket, to promote, support and encourage the work of nantucket artists, providing educational programs in the arts, preserving the legacy of nantucket artists, and to create a vibrant arts community.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The mission of the falmouth artists guild is to promote the visual arts for the cape cod community through educational opportunities and exhibitions for all.
New Bedford Art Museum is dedicated to engaging a diverse audience in relevant exhibitions, exemplary education, and creative experiences as a vital innovative center for the arts.
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
The Museum's mission is to encourage and promote the appreciation of fine art to people in its surrounding communities and beyond. The Museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the…
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
The n.e. quilt museum uses quilts and the stories of quiltmaking to inspire and educate quilters and the general public. the museum presents, preserves, and studies american quiltmaking, both past and present.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Ann Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seal Legacy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BASS ROCKS GOLF CLUB ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GARDENERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ADDISON GILBERT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Seal Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN PLEIN AIR INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY NECK ART COLONY INC ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Art Association 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.
Open a dossier: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · William V & Betty M Ellis Family Foundation · CALDWELL FOUNDATION co ROBERT STEWART PC · The Hausman Family Charitable Trust · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · McCarthy Family Foundation · Hildreth Stewart Charitable 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 Charles Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cape Ann Plein Air Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rocky Neck Art Colony Inc — 1% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rockport Art Association — 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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