How much did CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 96% of CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

festivalequipmentsummer

2020

upgradefestival

2021

—

2022

equipment

2023

butterfly

2024

playground equipment

2025

nfptheatre

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $13k
$10k–50k6 grants · $122k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,600

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF CHARLESTON$50,000
LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION$36,000
CITY OF CHARLESTON$30,000
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN$20,000
UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY$15,000
HEDWIG HAUS OF HOSPITALITY NFP$10,600
EIU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
COLES COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
CITY OF CHARLESTON$4,000
STANDING STONE COMM CENTER NFP$3,000
THEATRE IN THE PARK CHARLESTON NFP$976

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 19%. 0% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 24 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$325k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+225%

Still filing today

21%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

CO
CITY OF CHARLESTON
8× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M
CC
CHARLESTON COMM UNIT SCHOOLS
6× · 2018–2023 · $2.1M
LL
LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $336k · revenue +239% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

CC
COLES COUNTY
one grant, 2023 · $200k
SB
SARAH BUSH LINCOLN HEALTH FOUNDATIO
one grant, 2023 · $40k
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
one grant, 2021 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Cole County Historical Society

Historical museum

Arts & Culture

Coles County Mental Health

To design and deliver an array of high quality, cost effective, outpatient behavioral health services oriented toward consumer recovery and responsive to the needs of the consumers, their families and the community.

Health

The Illinois State Historical Society

To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.

—

Cass County Historical Society

Collect, preserve and interpret the history of Cass County Nebraska.

Arts & Culture

Clark County Historical Society

Preserve and Collect History of Clark County, Illinois

—

Casa of West Central Illinois

To advocate for abused and neglected children in the legal welfare system.

Crime & Legal

Rock Island County Historical Society

The society's mission is to collect preserve and disseminate information related to the history of rock island county illinois

Arts & Culture

Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture

Champaign County Historical Society

The Champaign County Historical Society runs and manages the Champaign County Historical Museum, and is dedicated to preserving local history, exhibiting relevant displays, and educating the public about local historic events.

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Coles County Habitat for Humanity

To provide affordable lowincome housing to qualified families in Coles County IL

—

The Cowley County Historical

The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.

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Casa of Effingham County

Provided volunteers to servce as court appointed special advocates for neglected and abused children.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of East Central Illinois and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Log Cabin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

8/9

Grantees still filing

4/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,238,136Philanthropy$161,000Education$68,384Arts & Culture$42,200Housing & Shelter$10,600Civil Rights$1,500Youth Development$1,410

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 organisation CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~32 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 371195606 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LINCOLN LOG CABIN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 32 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Charleston Area Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charleston Area Charitable Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charleston Area Charitable Foundation?

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CHARLESTON AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Charleston Area Charitable Foundation?

More from the funding graph