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Charlies Choice Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$5k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charlies Choice Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTenngreen Land Conservancy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSweet Briar Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wissahickon Mills Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFriends of the Cheat Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rectory School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooks School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia University Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo Field Campaign Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Wilderness Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Eleuthera Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trust for Public Land: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Rivers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Preston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of Blackwater Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Pantry Plus More Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMountain State Spotlight Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutdoor Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWest Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Mono Lake Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia Public Broadcasting Founda: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Potomac Conservancy Inc: $500 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 25.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Charlies Choice Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charlies Choice Foundation 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 Charlies Choice Foundation

How much does Charlies Choice Foundation give?
Charlies Choice Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Charlies Choice Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Education (31%), Recreation & Sports (9%).
Who are Charlies Choice Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Tenngreen Land Conservancy ($10k), Sweet Briar Institute ($5k), The Wissahickon Mills Foundation ($5k).
Does Charlies Choice Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charlies Choice Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Marin Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Charlies Choice Foundation based?
Charlies Choice Foundation is based in WV.

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 33 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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