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Charles Foundation Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ANGELA HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ST CECILA SCHOOL AND ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC | $5,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF STL | $5,000 |
| BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| INTERN'L INSTITUTE OF METRO ST LOUIS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVE SHALOM- | $3,000 |
| GRAMEEN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MARY'S PENCE | $2,000 |
| CARE-COOPERATIVE ASSISTANCE RELIEF EVERY | $2,000 |
| BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%
- UUUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +626%
- BFBread for the World Institute5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +44%
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
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.
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.
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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.
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PENCE ↗
- 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 ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Foundation Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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