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Charlotte's Web

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$161k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$541kEducation$86kYouth Development$50kArts & Culture$43kHealth$40kRecreation & Sports$40kCivil Rights$11kFood & Nutrition$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $140k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLASTIC POLLUTION COALITION$30,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
HEALTHY ACADIA$10,000
KOLLEGEWIDGWOK SAILING EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$10,000
THE MARINE STUDIES CONSORTIUM$10,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$10,000
PLEIADES NETWORK$10,000
EO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
UNMANAGEABLE$10,000
BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST$10,000
PLEIADES NETWORK$10,000
BLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY$5,000
NATIVE GARDENS OF BLUE HILL$5,000
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULTPTURE GARDEN$5,000
BLUE HILL LIBRARY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%NARAL PRO CHOICE AMERICA: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$718k · 15 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
23

Total granted

$718k
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+62%

Still filing today

73%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Earth Island Institute Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $220k · revenue +78%
  • OP
    OO PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +241%
  • PN
    PLEIADES NETWORK INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • GE
    GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE OF GHANA US Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • TG
    THE GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE AT JPMORGAN CHASE
    one grant, 2019 · $45k
  • WL
    WORLD LEARNING
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
2
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
3
Wetlands Foundation
Environment
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
5
Global Foundation for Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Inc
Philanthropy
6
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
7
Oceans Initiative

Oceans Initiative is a team of scientists on a mission to protect marine life and the ecosystems on which they depend, and to share our innovative science to guide conservation action.

Science & Tech
8
Global Fishing Watch Inc

Global fishing watch advances ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. by creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we enable scientific research and drive a transformation…

Environment
9
Protect Maine's Fishing Heritage Foundation
Environment
10
Ocean Alliance Project

Protecting and promoting the marine biodiversity of Hawai'i through coral restoration, ecological monitoring, regenerative tourism, and cultural integration

Science & Tech
11
Ocean Awareness Project Inc

Blue Frontier Campaign works to promote unity, provide tools and raise awareness of the solution oriented marine conservation community.

Environment
12
Ocean Genome Atlas Project

The Ocean Genome Atlas Project OGAP aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80 of the extant marine species worldwide. Deploying a fleet of advanced but cost effective research…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Blue Hill Heritage Trust; the most unlike its peers is Girls Education Initiative of Ghana Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Earth Island Institute Inc: $220,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute IncOO PROJECT: $210,000 · EnvironmentOO PROJECTBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $17,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $17,000 · Environment+3 more: $22,000 · EnvironmentIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE AT JPMORGAN CHASE: $45,000 · OtherTHE GIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE AT…KSEA SAILING SCHOOL: $30,075 · OtherKSEA SAILING SCHOOLNATIVE GARDENS OF BLUE HILL: $10,500 · OtherWORLD LEARNING: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $73,867 · Other+22 moreGIRLS EDUCATION INITIATIVE OF GHANA US Inc: $60,000 · EducationGIRLS EDUCA…PLEIADES NETWORK INC: $30,600 · EducationPLEIADES NE…+2 more: $3,000 · EducationMaternity Care Coalition: $15,085 · HealthLifeFlight Foundation: $15,000 · HealthHEALTHY ACADIA: $10,000 · HealthTRANSFORMER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUNMANAGEABLE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKOLLEGEWIDGWOK SAILING AND EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMARINE STUDIES CONSORTIUM INC: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Environment$486,000Other$284,442Education$93,600Health$40,085Arts & Culture$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Science & Tech$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $220,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetOO PROJECT: $210,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetPLEIADES NETWORK INC: $30,600 over 3y, 16% of budgetBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST: $17,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaternity Care Coalition: $15,085 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSFORMER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEO WILSON BIODIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNMANAGEABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD OCEAN OBSERVATORY: $7,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetBLUE HILL FIRE COMPANY: $7,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKING THE BOAT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Maine Community Found…Becton Family Foundat…Laurence B Flood Foun…Lawrence Family Found…Prior Family Foundati…The Clements Family C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Maine Community Foundation IncME18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · Prior Family Foundation · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charlotte's Web funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charlotte's Web. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Charlotte's Web?

    Find your warmest path to Charlotte's Web 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.

    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 45 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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