· Public charity
Charlie's Heart Foundation
Empowering families to stay together when faced with difficult life circumstances.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADDIS JEMARI INC | $40,000 |
| KINDER-MOURN INC | $30,000 |
| FOSTER VILLAGE CHARLOTTE | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR CHILDRENS RIGHTS INC | $20,000 |
| THE STILL PLACE INC | $20,000 |
| MITCHELL BAYS TURNER PEDIATRIC FUND INC | $20,000 |
| PROJECT 658 - HOPE COMMUNITY CLINIC | $15,000 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $15,000 |
| MIND BODY BABY | $15,000 |
| FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS RE-IMAGINE FOSTER CARE | $11,000 |
| BEAUTY MARKS FOR GIRLS | $10,000 |
| THE PARENTING PATH | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Charlie's Heart Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- AJADDIS JEMARI INC6× · 2019–2024 · $224k · revenue +219%
- KIKinderMourn Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +42%
- TSTHE STILL PLACE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $80k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- RHRENEWAL HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
- OIourBRIDGE Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +186%
- FOFRIENDS OF AINEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +180%
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.
Foster Kinship supports all kinship families throughout Nevada. We assist grandparents, relatives, and fictive kin who are raising children through five core programs: 1- Enhanced Kinship Navigator Program - Provides intensive support to…
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Carolina adoption services provides international and domestic adoption services, foster care, home studies, and post adoption support for children, youth and adoptive families.
To provide hope and healing for children who have been abused
Supporting children and families through individual, community-based services. We provide behavioral health services to severely emotionally disturbed children (ages 2 to 24) and their families.
The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.
Provide loving home environment, continuity of care, and empowerment of displaced and fragile children.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…
Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
Steadfastly providing hope for children and families through providing 24/7 support for clients and families, case management, consultation, and referrals to service providers in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fostering Great Ideas and the most unlike its peers is A Glimmer of Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 23 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 ADDIS JEMARI INC ↗
- Who funds A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KinderMourn Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STILL PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Claire's Army Inc ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTGIFT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC ↗
- Who funds Foster Village Charlotte ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING GREAT IDEAS ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds Council for Childrens Rights Inc ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Project 658 Inc ↗
- Who funds Mind Body Baby ↗
- Who funds Beauty Marks for Girls ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ourBRIDGE Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AINE ↗
- Who funds FOSTER SIBLINGS REUNITED INC ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Albemarle Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Merancas Foundation Inc · Km Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · United Way Worldwide · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Charlie's Heart 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.
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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