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Charter Oak Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY | $10,000 |
| YOUTH OUTLOOK | $10,000 |
| SG UNITED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE | $10,000 |
| READ TO ACHIEVE | $5,000 |
| TRINITY ACADEMY OF HARTFORD | $5,000 |
| VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $5,000 |
| YOUR MOVE MKE | $5,000 |
| ABC HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| WINNING WAYS INC | $5,000 |
| ERINS ANGELS OF CNY INC | $5,000 |
| COMPASS FOR KIDS INC | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA TRANSPORTATION MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| FAMILY MATTERS INC | $5,000 |
| HEAVENWARD FARM HORSEMANSHIP INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YLYOUNG LIVES REDEEMED4× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +836%
- IFInnovators for Purpose Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $25k · revenue +756%
- HMHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TLTHE LUCY PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +256%
- MIMINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +186%
- LULOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +10%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Association house's mission is to advance each person's full participation in the life of their families, communities, and society. since 1899, we have served a vibrant, multicultural community. we used a trauma informed, culturally…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To provide direct mental health services, psychotherapy, and counseling to homeless families in San Francisco, CA and in particular to children of such families, to provide referral services for such families and their children to other…
Teen H.Y.P.E. (Helping Youth by Providing Education), empowers urban youth to thrive while strengthening their communities.
HYPE empowers historically underrepresented and underserved middle and high school students with technology skills and audience-centered programming to prepare them to become future leaders in tech careers. As a result, we are establishing…
Ywp builds the leadership and power of young people so that they can transform dc institutions to expand rights and opportunities for dc youth. ywp programs engage youth on three levels - as peer educators, advocates, and employees - and…
Youth Emerging Stronger (YES) empowers young people, between ages of 12 and 24 within Los Angeles County, including but not limited to run-away and homeless youth. YES mission is to end homelessness one youth at a time to become…
Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
In 34 cities across five countries, covenant house builds bridges to hope for young people facing homelessness and survivors of human trafficking. we meet their immediate needs for food, clothing, protection, and medical and mental health…
Providing a network of support and empowerment for youth ages 16-25 to break the cycle of homelessness and promote independence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Place for Youth Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Promise to Jordan. 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 15 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
62 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. 62 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.
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 YOUNG LIVES REDEEMED ↗
- Who funds Innovators for Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OUTLOOK ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SG UNITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗
- Who funds 826CHI INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds RECLAIM ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ON TRACK ↗
- Who funds ALMA BACKYARD FARM ↗
- Who funds A Promise to Jordan ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN GARDEN PROJECT INC GARDEN-RAISED BOUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALL 4 KIDZ INC ↗
- Who funds YOUR MOVE MKE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Compass for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE LUCY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA INDEPENDENCE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds LOVE UNITY & VALUES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ADVOT ↗
- Who funds APNA GHAR INC ↗
- Who funds HEART Women & Girls ↗
- Who funds Nehemiah Group dba Chicago Eco House ↗
- Who funds Chicago Heightening Opportunity and Potential for ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMPASS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CALL ↗
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: Chicago Foundation for Women · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Orange County Community Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Tides Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 Oak 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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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