How much did THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

cmsdliteracyarts educationpresupportgeneralearlyteen

2019

safearts educationliteracyscholarsnatureblackempowerment

2020

covid crisisemergency covidint'lstudentsloraineducboys

2021

championslaunchresidencereproductive healthbailreformcriminal justice

2022

wellnesselevatinggroundwaterinstallmentlgbtperformancepayment

2023

drinkclean wateradvocatesangie'scriminal justicejustice reformreproductive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 146 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k32 grants · $131k
$10k–50k100 grants · $2.1M
$50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants

SANDSTONE FOUNDATION$200,000
MAGNOLIA CLUBHOUSE$200,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$150,000
FLYING HORSE FARMS$122,000
KHNEMU FOUNDATION INC$100,000
C2F3$75,000
EAST 66TH STREET SERVICES$75,000
ENLIGHTENED SOLUTIONS$50,117
THE GATHERING PLACE$50,000
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$50,000
YMCA OF GREATER CLEVELAND$50,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$50,000
SIGNAL OHIO$50,000
BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES$50,000
LEGALWORKS INC$44,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$30M · 263 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

263 repeat relationships — 116 still active in FY2024, 147 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

263

160

Total granted

$30M

$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

Still filing today

65%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $555k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

LS
LAND STUDIO
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +321%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +26%
FO
FRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS
4× · 2017–2020 · $1.0M · revenue +16%

Funded once

TR
THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUMM
one grant, 2022 · $300k
TM
THE METROHEALTH FOUNDATIONINC
one grant, 2020 · $100k
TM
THE METROHEALTH SYSTEM
one grant, 2018 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 Contemporary Theatre of Ohio

The mission of the contemporary theatre of ohio is to harness the transformational power of theatre for the current moment to inspire empathy in our community. we are responsive to community needs by producing productions for adults and…

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Botanical Garden

The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.

Environment

The Works - Ohio Center for

To inspire creativity and wonder through extraordinary experiences.

Arts & Culture

Engage Cleveland Inc

Our mission is to attract, engage and retain emerging diverse talent to Greater Cleveland.

Community Improvement

Greater Cleveland Media Development Corporation

To promote increased media production in Northeast Ohio using effective strategies for attraction and workforce development including building an artistic infrastructure through film.

Philanthropy

Culture Works

Culture works is the funding, advocacy, and service organization that passionately inspires, supports, and sustains arts and culture in the dayton region.

Arts & Culture

Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement

The Children's Museum of Cleveland

The children's museum of cleveland's focus: fostering creativity via exhibits and programming featuring the arts and concept of invention; being a key resource for parents/caregivers; creating powerful tools to enhance school readiness and…

Arts & Culture

The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture

The City Club of Cleveland

The city club's mission is to create conversations of consequence that (continued on schedule o)help democracy thrive in pursuit of our vision of strong, informed individuals and communities that prize freedom of speech and civil, civic…

Education

Great Lakes Center for the Arts

Educate and serve all in northern michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture

Cleveland Builds Inc

Our mission is to connect motivated individuals in the greater cleveland area with career opportunities in construction.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assembly for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Motogo. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/268

the rest of the field

11%

1,228/11,001

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.

05the grantee network

256 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

101

Early backer (in before they grew)

247/256

Grantees still filing

187/256

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$18,941,105Arts & Culture$5,086,226Education$3,645,750Human Services$2,388,467Philanthropy$1,182,450Health$1,132,864Community Improvement$947,500

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.

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.

The George Gund FoundationOH206.9× affinity111 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Abington Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · The Swagelok Foundation · Third Federal Foundation · John P Murphy Foundation · Martha Holden Jennings Foundation · The Cleveland Clinic 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 organisation THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SANDSTONE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~14 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 11.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472442291 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SANDSTONE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 14 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family?

Find your warmest path to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

256 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family?

More from the funding graph

THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

256 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Char and Chuck Fowler Family?

More from the funding graph