· Private foundation
Earle P Charlton Jr Charity Fund
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
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $102k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS ASSOC OF BRISTOL COUNTY | $300,000 |
| FALL RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $102,000 |
| YMCA SOUTHCOAST | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $810k · revenue +31%- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC7× · 2017–2025 · $344k · revenue +81%
- TCTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC3× · 2017–2023 · $297k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- JRJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC1STone grant, 2019 · $200k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $150k
- UWUNITED WAY OF FALL RIVERone grant, 2021 · $90k
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
To sponsor, develop, offer and/or promote services and programs relating to the care, treatment and healing of humans, which services and programs are charitable, scientific, and/or educational and which address the physical and mental…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading voice for all massachusetts hospitals and healthcare systems and to help them provide high quality, cost-effective and equitable patient care.
South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association Southcoast Inc and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Association of Bristol County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 17 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 JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Fall River Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds USS MASSACHUSETTS MEMORIAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc ↗
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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Fall River Women's Union · The Robert F Stoicofirstfed Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Ida S Charlton Charity Fd Ua · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Earle P Charlton Jr Charity Fund 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.
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% 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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