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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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| WISSAHICKON MILLS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BROOKS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT | $5,000 |
| PRECTORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WVU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $1,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| OUTDOOR ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
The wyoming outdoor council's mission is to protect wyoming's environment and quality of life now and for future generations.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Public land solutions is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing comprehensive recreation planning and stakeholder coordination to support effective and sustainable public land solutions.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Working with the community to conserve the rivanna river and its watershed through water quality monitoring, education, restoration, and stewardship.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Weconservepa helps people protect, wisely use, and enjoy what nature offers. we advocate for pro-conservation, life sustaining government policy. we assist individuals and organizations in conserving natural areas, farms, forests, parks,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wissahickon Mills 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 38 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 9% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 TENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE WISSAHICKON MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain State Spotlight Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds Outdoor Alliance ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PRESTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING FOUNDA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY 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: 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
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 Charlies Choice 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.
- The Rectory School 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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