· Private foundation
The Charles Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k62 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCHESTER MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER | $65,000 |
| MONTPELIER FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTRY VILLAGE & MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| AMERICAN FRONTIER CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES | $50,000 |
| JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING | $30,000 |
| SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST | $30,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNCOMMON SCHOOLS ROCHESTER PREP | $25,000 |
| MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC | $20,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $20,000 |
| MADISON HOUSE | $15,000 |
| LEWIS AND CLARK EXPLORATORY CENTER | $15,000 |
| WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY GRANT | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $451k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMONTPELIER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +80%
- GCGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $352k · revenue +37%
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- HFHILLSIDE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +134%
- LOLIBRARY OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +263%
- OOON OUR OWN CHARLOTTESVILLE VA INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -6%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The virginia association of museums is a statewide network serving the museum community. the association's mission statement is "the virginia association of museums helps our museum community succeed".
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
To use policy, research, and analysis to advance the well-being of Virginia communities, and improve the economic security and social opportunities of all Virginians.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…
To preserve, promote and serve as an advocate for virginia's irreplaceable historic places for cultural, economic and educational benefits for everyone.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
Central virginia health services, inc. (organization) is a non-profit health care organization with locations in bowling green, charles city, new canton, charlotte court house, farmville, alberta, petersburg, aylett, hopewell, montross,…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 110 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FAMILY OF AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON AREA BOARD FOR AGING INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTESVILLE ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Madison House ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTERS4KIDS ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY OF THE BLUE RIDGE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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