· Private foundation
Charles 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
80% of Charles Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Acadiana, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Charles Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $107k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k9 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Jackson Hole | $21,500 |
| CommFoundation of Acadiana St Paul's Church | $20,000 |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | $20,000 |
| Woodberry Forest School | $10,000 |
| Friends of Warner Park | $5,000 |
| University of the South | $5,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Lafayette LA | $5,000 |
| Land Trust for Tennessee | $5,000 |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $4,500 |
| Hero Hunts | $4,000 |
| Ensworth School | $2,500 |
| Peabody College at Vanderbilt | $2,500 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle TN | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC4× · 2017–2020 · $80k · revenue +4%
- WFWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +47%
- TLTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- LHLSU Health- Dept of Psychiatryone grant, 2018 · $10k
- REROSSVIEW ELEMENTARY PTOgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +55%
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.
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See Disclosure Above.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 Community Foundation of Acadiana ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds HERO HUNTS INC ↗
- Who funds 232-HELP INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE ENSWORTH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSSVIEW ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS OF MIDDLE TN ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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