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Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$137k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
23
Organizations funded FY2024
65%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 23
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$220k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$132k40%
FY202423$232k65%
FY202314$199k57%
FY20229$80k44%
FY20217$56k29%
FY20208$32k50%
FY201911$69k64%
FY201813$107k46%
71% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$615kEducation$67kHealth$39kYouth Development$21kCivil Rights$5kPhilanthropy$3kInternational$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
PA
NJ
MO
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Zichrone Binyamin$95,0002n/a
Kollel D Baltimore Inc$61,3004n/a
Bais Yaakov School for Girls Inc$38,0004n/a
Johns Hopkins University$20,00010%
Torah Academy for Girls$16,0003n/a
Cheder Toras Zev$15,00010%
Shearith Israel Congregation Inc$12,5002n/a
Yeshiva Gedolah of South Monsey$12,5001n/a
Friends of Bikur Cholim Ezrat Achim$11,00011%
Congregation Keren Hagemach$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Zichrone Binyamin$95,0002n/a
Kollel D Baltimore Inc$61,3004n/a
Bais Yaakov School for Girls Inc$38,0004n/a
Johns Hopkins University$20,00010%
Torah Academy for Girls$16,0003n/a
Cheder Toras Zev$15,00010%
Shearith Israel Congregation Inc$12,5002n/a
Yeshiva Gedolah of South Monsey$12,5001n/a
Friends of Bikur Cholim Ezrat Achim$11,00011%
Congregation Keren Hagemach$10,0001n/a
Agudath Israel of Baltimore Inc$8,3501n/a
Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia$7,0001n/a
Mesivta Yeshiva of Chestnut Ridge$6,00011%
Torah Day School of Atlanta$5,50020%
American Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc$4,80010%
Shaare Torah Inc$3,0001n/a
Gemach Chessed Inc$3,00010%
Ner Israel Rabbinical College Inc$2,0002n/a
Chai Lifeline Inc$1,00010%

Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($658k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCheder Toras Zev: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Bikur Cholim Ezrat Achim: $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMesivta Yeshiva of Chestnut Ridge: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTorah Day School of Atlanta: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yeshiva Dmir Inc: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGemach Chessed Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY25.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Milton & Libbey Davis Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah Fund · Donald D Rogers Foundation Inc · Gutman Family Foundation Inc · The Adar Foundation · Terumah Foundation Inc · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc

How much does Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc give?
Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $137,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (61%), Education (7%), Health (4%).
Who are Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Zichrone Binyamin ($95k), Kollel D Baltimore Inc ($61k), Bais Yaakov School for Girls Inc ($38k).
Does Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, National Society for Hebrew Day Schools.
Where is Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc based?
Charlie and del Major Foundation Inc is based in MD.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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