· Private foundation
Charles Foundation Inc
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 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $600k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEWATER-HEBRON VILLAGE SCHOOL | $500,000 |
| MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY-BROAD ARROW SCHOLARSHIP | $100,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN MORRISTOWN | $100,000 |
| KENT PLACE SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| WILTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| MISSOULA CHRISTIAN MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WILTON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| ANDWELL HEALTH PARTNERS | $15,000 |
| STRONG UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DELBARTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| VILLA WALSH ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING | $10,000 |
| ASSUMPTION SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
85 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 69 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Bucknell University8× · 2017–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +45%- SMSpeare Memorial Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +55%
- SUSUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BEBRIDGEWATER-HEBRON EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $182k
- TCTHE CARDIGAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · 97% of their budget
- YSYALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY-RCR JR SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2019 · $60k
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.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
How this is measured
74 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. 74 of the 126 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.
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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: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Daniel P Hagerman Foundation Corp · Fidelity Foundation · The John M Bryan Family Fund · Cocchiaro Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Paper Mill Playhouse: 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Drew University: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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