· Private foundation
Charles H Cross 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sibling Connections Inc | $4,500 |
| World is Our Classroon | $4,500 |
| Alianza DV Services Inc | $4,500 |
| Dream Big | $4,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 +77% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DBDream Big Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +102%
- SCSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +77%
- LCLITERATIONS CORP2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- PHProject Hopeone grant, 2020 · $8k
- AAlianzaone grant, 2021 · $8k
- YBYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INCone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +11%
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.
Girls inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart and bold by providing essential resources and programs to at risk, low-income girls and their families. girls inc. helps build girls' capacity for responsible and confident adulthood,…
Kids in tech, inc. is a statewide organization that excites, educates, and empowers children across massachusetts to use technology, promoting a positive environment and fostering lifelong interest in stem. through our after-school…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.
Girls inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through direct service and advocacy. our programming is delivered to girls in partnership with schools and at our centers across 75 affiliates.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.
The mission of girls incorporated of long island, is to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold. the organization provides school and community based programming that serves the unique needs of girls, ages 5-18, living in the nassau…
Electric girls builds girls' (ages 5 to 14) confidence & capabilities by engaging them in science, technology, engineering, and math (stem). electric girls facilitates in-school and extra-curricular programs (after-school, weekends, summer…
Girls inc of greater pittsburgh empowers girls to imagine a broader future through a curriculum grounded on female role models delivered by college women mentors, who are themselves mentored by professional women.
Girls with impact, inc. is the nation's only live, online business & leadership program for young women ages 14-24 years old. its mission is to level the playing field for all women in business and beyond by equipping them with the skills,…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 10 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.
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles H Cross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles H Cross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Alianza Dv Services Inc: 82% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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