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The Charis Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Charis Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.0MEducation$255kReligion$212kHealth$141kArts & Culture$25kAnimals$15k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKE'S HOME$60,000
HOPE KIDS$25,000
ANDREWS UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE ARIZONA CENTER FOR JUDAIC STUDY$5,000
THE STUTTERING FOUNDATION$5,000
THE GRATITUDE AND GRACE FOUNDATION$5,000
THERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS&KIDS$5,000
THE ROCK CAMP & OUTREACH CENTER$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 (FY17–25, $901k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%ST LUKE'S HOME: $205k → 15%ST LUKE'S HOME: $129k → 15%ST LUKE'S HOME: $110k → 15%ST LUKE'S HOME: $105k → 15%ST LUKES HOME: $100k → 15%ST LUKES HOME: $72k → 15%ST LUKE'S HOME: $65k → 15%ST LUKE'S HOME: $60k → 15%ST LUKES HOME: $55k → 15%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 14 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$1.7M
$1k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SL
    St Lukes in the Desert Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $901k · revenue +85%
  • AU
    ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • AD
    ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Lukes in the Desert Inc: $900,500 · Human ServicesSt Lukes in the Desert IncTHE ROCK CAMP & OUTREACH CENTER: $128,000 · OtherTHE ROCK CAMP & OUTREACH CENTERHOPE KIDS: $110,000 · OtherHOPE KIDSGOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INC: $70,000 · OtherGOSPEL RESCUE MISSION INCStuttering Foundation of America: $60,000 · OtherStuttering Foundation of Americ…SATORI SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherSATORI SCHOOLCASAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherCASAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $13,500 · OtherANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationANDREWS UNIVE…BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $51,000 · HealthGratitude and Grace Foundation: $10,000 · HealthARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS: $15,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$900,500Other$456,500Education$200,000Health$61,000Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Lukes in the Desert Inc: $900,500 over 9y, 15% of budgetANDREWS UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStuttering Foundation of America: $60,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetBEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING: $51,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGratitude and Grace Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 16% 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.

  • Who funds St Lukes in the Desert Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Stuttering Foundation of America ↗
  • Who funds BEADS OF COURAGE INC DBA CENTER FOR ARTS IN NURSING ↗
  • Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds THERAPEUTIC RANCH FOR ANIMALS AND KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Gratitude and Grace Foundation ↗

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.

Community Foundation …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Charis Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charis Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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