· Public charity
Edward Charles Foundation
We act as a fiscal sponsor of charitable projects, funds and charitable events to advance worthwhile causes and to assist solving some of the world's biggest problems.
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.
The 204 grants below total $24,508,841 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $34,303,397 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,794,556 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k107 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k48 grants · $5.2M
- $250k+26 grants · $17M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRUCTURAL UNEMPLOYMENT (DBA WORKING NATION) | $4,008,656 |
| WHEN JUSTICE | $2,843,000 |
| ROOT CAUSE FDN | $1,000,000 |
| CRISIS TEXT LINE INC | $620,533 |
| ARTSDESIGN ALUMNI RESEARCH | $617,400 |
| COLLEGE TRACK | $600,000 |
| RENNERVATION FOUNDATION | $597,405 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $505,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JR UNIVERSITY (DBA STANFORD UNIVER | $500,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS | $485,000 |
| THRIVE MARKET INC | $455,012 |
| NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $425,000 |
| HEAL PALESTINE INC | $423,869 |
| ROD DEDEAUX FOUNDATION | $423,590 |
| UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC | $398,536 |
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, $5.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
Grants abroad, by region — $6.8M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 6 regions, $6.5M to organizations and $333k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT SPORTS YOUTH TENNIS IN INDONESIA · DONATION IN SUPPORT OF CLIMATE CHANGE · DONATION TOWARDS ART EDUCATION
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT MENTAL HEALTH · TO SUPPORT VISUAL SNOW SYNDROME RESEARCH · TO SUPPORT MEDICAL AID
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING PROGRAMS
Stated purpose: DONATION TO SUPPORT ENTITY'S CANADIAN PROJECTS · TO SUPPORT ENTITY VOLUNTEERS AND TRANSPORTATION · TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY PROGRAM
Stated purpose: TO SUPPORT EMPOWERMENT PROJECT · DONATION TO SUPPORT SCHOLARSHIPS · TO SUPPORT SCHOOLS
Stated purpose: HARDSHIP GRANT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 141 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M 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
- ECEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +354%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +6%
- CTCOLLEGE TRACK6× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TFTHE FELTHEIMER FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20M · revenue -171%
- GIGRADALIS INCone grant, 2024 · $2.6M
- GIGENOSERA INCone grant, 2024 · $2.3M
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Enchanted Backpack. 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 20 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
406 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. 406 of the 587 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE FELTHEIMER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELLEN FUND ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSEWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds WHEN Justice ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY OAKS ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds OPEN GATE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds KINDRED ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLENTIFUL ↗
- Who funds Arts & Design Alumni Reserch ↗
- Who funds LETO FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DINNER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILDFIRESORG INC ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds IMPACT PHILANTHROPY GROUP ↗
- Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ROD DEDEAUX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MR HOLLAND'S OPUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds WADES WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEAL PALESTINE 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: National Basketball Players Association Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gibson Gives Foundation Dba Gibson Gives · Pledgeling Foundation · Entertainment Industry Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · Tarsadia Foundation · Players Philanthropy Fund Inc · Reissa Foundation · The Winston-Salem 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 Edward Charles 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.
- Hias Economic Advancement Fund Inc — 51% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay 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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