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Choksi Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Choksi Family Charitable Trust

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.

$545k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$458kHealth$358kEducation$283kSocial Science$230kPhilanthropy$98kCommunity Improvement$54kInternational$39kHuman Services$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $360k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$608k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE$200,000
TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL$110,000
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$50,000
THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL$25,000
ST ALBANS SCHOOL$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH NORTH AMERICAN OFFICE$25,000
MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL$22,180
SMITHSONIAN - NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY$15,000
NEW FUTURES$12,500
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION$10,000
THE GREATER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA$10,000
ORCHESTRA OF THE AMERICAS$10,000
CASA OF THE MID-SHORE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%TALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE: $3k → 10%NEW FUTURES: $13k → 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

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 16 repeat orgs$303k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
19

Total granted

$1.4M
$230k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+19%

Still filing today

69%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropySocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TF
    TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $210k · revenue +312%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2022 · $140k · revenue +87%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • WL
    WASHINGTON LEE ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $80k
  • A
    AEI
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • WW
    WILSON WOODROW CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
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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3
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
4
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
8
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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9
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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10
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
11
Maryland Institute

Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.

Education
12
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Forethecure. 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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN HOPKINS MEDICINE: $330,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS MEDICINEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $85,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D …WASHINGTON LEE ANNUAL FUND: $80,000 · OtherWASHINGTON LEE ANNUAL FUNDAEI: $50,000 · OtherAEIW&L UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · Other+20 more: $172,080 · Other+20 moreTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $210,000 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALLSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONLEVINE MUSIC INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLEVINE MUSIC INCNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTEROrchestra of the Americas Group Inc: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $200,000 · Social ScienceAMERICAN ENTER…WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $10,000 · Social ScienceUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE UNIVER…COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $7,500 · EducationMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $54,383 · Community ImprovementWORLD BANK COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FUND: $29,160 · PhilanthropyFORETHECURE: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesNEW FUTURES: $12,500 · Human Services
Other$757,080Arts & Culture$435,000Social Science$210,000Education$157,500Community Improvement$54,383Philanthropy$34,160Human Services$25,000

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 budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $210,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCE SOCIAL CAPITAL: $54,383 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEVINE MUSIC INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD BANK COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FUND: $29,160 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOrchestra of the Americas Group Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW FUTURES: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON NATIONALS PHILANTHROPIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORETHECURE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetACADEMY ART MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $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.

Clark Charitable Foun…Greater Washington Co…Sunrise Charitable Fo…The Wyman Family Foun…Brillembourg Ochoa Fa…The Rossotti Family F…The Seip Family Found…The Llandaff Family T…Dimick Foundation Joh…The Morris and Gwendo…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark FoundationMD19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trust · The Wyman Family Foundation Inc · Brillembourg Ochoa Family Foundation Inc · The Rossotti Family Foundation · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · The Llandaff Family Trust · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Choksi Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Choksi Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Academy Art Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–25%
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.
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How do I get to Choksi Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Choksi Family Charitable Trust 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 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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