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Charles Foundation Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART- DUCHESNE | $385,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART GRAND COTEAU | $50,000 |
| ST CECILA SCHOOL AND ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ANGELA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC | $5,000 |
| INTERN'L INSTITUTE OF METRO ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF STL | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOM- | $3,000 |
| MARY'S PENCE | $2,000 |
| OXFAM -AMERICA INC | $2,000 |
| WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL | $2,000 |
| CARE-COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE RELIEF EVERY | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of your 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%
- UUUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +626%
- MPMARY'S PENCE7× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART -PROVINICIALone grant, 2024 · $268k
- SOSOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART UNITED STATES CANADA PROVINCE INCone grant, 2023 · $243k
- SOSOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART-CONSECRATEDone grant, 2024 · $40k
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.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
See schedule o for a more detailed description of ide's mission statement and achievements.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
(see schedule o)
To promote alignment and collective action on vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients across sectors by bridging nutrition science, policy, programs, and responsible business practices for health and well-being.
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Old St Ferdinand Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 38 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 OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Mexican American Catholic College Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Old St Ferdinand Inc ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PENCE ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FROM HUNGER ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL ↗
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.
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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 Foundation Charitable Tr 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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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