· Private foundation
CharlesBrenda Larsen Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Berea College | $20,000 |
| New England Center for Children | $9,500 |
| Pan Mass Challenge The Jimmy Fund | $8,000 |
| Quogue Library | $5,000 |
| Neighbors Together | $5,000 |
| Johns Island Presbyterian Church | $4,800 |
| Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic | $4,000 |
| Lowcountry Food Bank | $4,000 |
| Our Lady of Mercy | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Ed Zolla Memorial Scholarship | $2,500 |
| Respite Care of Charleston | $2,500 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $2,500 |
| Rutgers Presbyterian Church | $2,500 |
| NorthEastern University | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
BEREA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $182k · revenue +50%- TNTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +32%
- BIBARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- TLThe Land Instituteone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Education and Research
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uncommon Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
71 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. 71 of the 146 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 BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Kiawah Cares Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbors Together Inc ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
- Who funds Sea Island Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRESHMAN FIFTEEN ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Kelly Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · George R & Janet E Desko Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation · Trident United Way · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Degnan Family Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community Foundation
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 CharlesBrenda Larsen Family Foundation 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
- Valley Pre-Schoolinc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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