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Charlton Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of CHARLTON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
$16,667
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANKAKEE AREA YMCA$25,000
RIVERSIDE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$25,000
KANKAKEE RIVERFRONT SOCIETY$16,667
NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK$2,500
KANKAKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 12 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$1.4M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-2%

Still filing today

58%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • KC
    KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $250k · revenue +16%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +80%
  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2024 · $61k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -34%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k
  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
2
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
3
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

4
Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture
5
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
6
The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment
7
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
8
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
9
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Montgomery County Community Foundation

The mission of the Montgomery County Community Foundation (MCCF) is to provide leadership in Montgomery County by directing sustainable financial resources that strengthen our community and improve the quality of life for current and…

Philanthropy
12
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverside Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kankakee Riverfront Society 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $525,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE — $149,580 · OtherYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEEIndividual grant recipient — $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $118,014 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSouth Pointe Youth for Christ — $72,000 · OtherSouth Pointe Youth for ChristTreeFolks Inc — $50,000 · OtherKANKAKEE VALLEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $45,220 · Other+8 more — $78,700 · Other+8 moreKANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationKANKAKEE COMMUNITY…+1 more — $5,500 · EducationNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $60,500 · Food & NutritionFAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER — $32,500 · HealthKankakee Riverfront Society Inc — $16,667 · Community ImprovementCamp For All Foundation — $12,177 · Youth DevelopmentPease Park Conservancy — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,158,514Education$255,500Food & Nutrition$60,500Health$32,500Community Improvement$16,667Youth Development$12,177Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $525,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetKANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE — $149,580 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK — $60,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTreeFolks Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER — $32,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetKankakee Riverfront Society Inc — $16,667 over 1y, 11% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $12,177 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPease Park Conservancy — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANKAKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,400 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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 RIVERSIDE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE
  • Who funds South Pointe Youth for Christ
  • Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
  • Who funds TreeFolks Inc
  • Who funds FAMILY CARE & PREGNANCY CENTER
  • Who funds Kankakee Riverfront Society Inc
  • Who funds Camp For All Foundation
  • Who funds Pease Park Conservancy
  • Who funds THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds KANKAKEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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.

Iroquois Federal Foundation IncIL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Charlton Family Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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