· Private foundation
Franklin Templeton Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of Franklin Templeton Charitable Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $435k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $595k
- $250k+1 grant · $527k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOURCAUSE LLC | $526,611 |
| JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC | $225,000 |
| JA WORLDWIDE INC | $120,000 |
| GIRLS WHO INVEST INC | $75,000 |
| ROCK THE STREET WALL STREET | $75,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CANADA | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $30,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC | $25,000 |
| LIVING CLASSROOMS FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BOTTOM LINE INC | $25,000 |
| HARLEM RBI INC | $25,000 |
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, $436k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
55 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 18 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
- JWJA WORLDWIDE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $480k · revenue +33%
- LLIFEMOVES4× · 2022–2025 · $230k · revenue +9%
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- YCYOUR CLAUSE LLCone grant, 2022 · $426k
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVEone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -40%
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -61%
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pushing Pink Elephants 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
235 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. 235 of the 302 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 JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds JA WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO INVEST INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ROCK THE STREET WALL STREET ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGEBOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THREAD INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION EDUCATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds San Mateo Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIANTS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Venable Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Kahlert Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · Campbell 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 Franklin Templeton Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Open Works Inc — 96% of income from government
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc — 19% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Everyman Theatre Inc — 15% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Center Stage Associates Inc — 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Stevenson University — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hippodrome Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Humanim Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Hun School of Princeton — 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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