Virginia · Private foundation
The Charles Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $584k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 77 to 87
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Charles Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 78 | $584k | 1% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $501k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $526k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $602k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $529k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $543k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $510k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $480k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Museum & Science Center | $550,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Montpelier Foundation | $505,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Hillside Family of Agencies | $410,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Genesee Country Museum | $352,200 | 9 | 1% |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc | $280,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Jefferson Area Board for Aging Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Shenandoah National Park Trust | $205,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Martha Jefferson Hospital Foundation | $170,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hospice of the Piedmont Inc | $165,000 | 8 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Charlottesville | $165,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 76 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($878k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charles Fund Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The J & E Berkley Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The Oak Hill Fund · The Watterson Foundation · Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlottesville
How this is measured
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About The Charles Fund Inc
- How much does The Charles Fund Inc give?
- The Charles Fund Inc reported 80 grants totaling $584,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 77 and 87 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Charles Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Human Services (18%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Charles Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rochester Museum & Science Center ($550k), Montpelier Foundation ($505k), Hillside Family of Agencies ($410k).
- Does The Charles Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Charles Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Perry Foundation Inc, The J & E Berkley Foundation.
- Where is The Charles Fund Inc based?
- The Charles Fund Inc is based in VA.
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