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Charter Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$344k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.

Health$830kCivil Rights$480kEducation$440kPhilanthropy$260kArts & Culture$178kFood & Nutrition$144kInternational$120kHuman Services$100kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $325k
$11,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTOPIAN SEED PROJECT$40,000
RANDOM ACTS INC$37,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$20,000
SCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL$20,000
THE WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY OF$20,000
FRENCHMAN BAY CONSERVANCY$20,000
THE JACKSON LABORATORY$20,000
CENTER FOR INQUIRY$15,000
FRIENDLY KITCHEN$11,500
WINDHAM'S HELPING HANDS INC$11,500
NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES$11,500
PALACE THEATRE$11,500
NAMI NH$11,500
CASA OF NH$11,500
THE HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION$11,000
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 (FY17–22, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HOLLABACK: $14k → 20%WINDHAM'S HELPING HANDS INC: $12k → 5%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $12k → 7%NH FOOD BANK: $1k → 7%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $1k → 7%END RAPE ON CAMPUS INC: $14k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
KS
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 23 repeat orgs$692k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 20 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
28

Total granted

$1.8M
$415k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+59%

Still filing today

83%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $278k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsOther

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

  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $266k · revenue +45%
  • SC
    Secular Coalition for America Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $156k · revenue +2%
  • NW
    National Women's Health Network
    5× · 2017–2021 · $152k · revenue +274%

Funded once

  • ME
    MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $155k
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MEN AGAIN
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • AH
    AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
4
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
5
Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights
6
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Roots Foundation Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Food System Organizat…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/57
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,508

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
42/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTE — $155,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INSTITUTETHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION — $115,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATIONCONCORD FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER — $100,000 · OtherCONCORD FEMINIST HEALTH CENTERFRIENDS OF FAMILY PLANNING — $68,333 · OtherFRIENDS OF FAMILY PLANNINGThe Roots Foundation Inc — $45,000 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $119,500 · OtherAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCCAMP QUEST INC — $45,000 · Other+41 more — $448,380 · Other+41 moreNational Women's Health Network — $152,333 · HealthNational Women's Hea…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $149,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD F…Trust Women Foundation Inc — $143,333 · HealthTrust Women Foundati…HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $15,000 · HealthPROCTOR ACADEMY — $266,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADE…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $21,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE U…LEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVER…+3 more — $18,000 · Education+3 moreSecular Coalition for America Inc — $155,500 · Civil RightsSecular Coa…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CI…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $11,500 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $260,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampsh…CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC — $91,000 · Arts & CultureRANDOM ACTS INC — $37,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOONER MARTHA FOUNDATION — $31,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL — $20,000 · Arts & CulturePALACE THEATRE TRUST — $11,500 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureUtopian Seed Project Inc — $70,000 · Food & NutritionSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,096,713Health$500,166Education$325,000Civil Rights$287,000Philanthropy$260,000Arts & Culture$201,000Food & Nutrition$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $266,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $260,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSecular Coalition for America Inc — $155,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetNational Women's Health Network — $152,333 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $149,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc — $143,333 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $119,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN HUMANIST ASSOCIATION — $115,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD FEMINIST HEALTH CENTER — $100,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INQUIRY INC — $91,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUtopian Seed Project Inc — $70,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP QUEST INC — $45,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetThe Roots Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetRANDOM ACTS INC — $37,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAMERICAN ATHEISTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSANT BANI SCHOOL — $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOODIC ARTS FOR ALL — $20,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrenchman Bay Conservancy — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BONOBOS — $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHT TO BE INC — $14,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDHAMS HELPING HANDS INC — $11,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNAMI NEW HAMPSHIRE — $11,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC — $11,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST — $11,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $11,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOMELAND HEROES FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER — $10,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAGLY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECULAR STUDENT ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAudubon Society of New Hampshire — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOREVER PAWS ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HUMANIST STUDIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLIVE FREE ANIMAL RESCUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…Noteman-Jones Family …Bangor Savings Bank F…Arthur L Getz Charita…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Cogswell Benevolent T…Fidelity FoundationStiefel Freethought F…Madelaine G Vonweber …Analog Devices Founda…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH30.4× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Noteman-Jones Family Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Fidelity Foundation · Stiefel Freethought Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Analog Devices Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

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 Charter 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Charter Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Charter Charitable 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.

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 74 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines