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The Charles M Grant Foundation

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.

$54k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$672k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Charles M Grant Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 82% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$54k33%
FY202418$152k33%
FY202314$42k21%
FY202221$36k24%
FY202118$33k11%
FY202022$42k18%
FY201919$33k11%
FY201821$33k24%
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What it funded, over time

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

Religion$108kEducation$87kHuman Services$79kHealth$70kFood & Nutrition$31kArts & Culture$23kAnimals$21kRecreation & Sports$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
CO
MO
DE
AZ
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Indian Hill Church$100,0001n/a
Freestore Foodbank Inc$30,50090%
Life Enriching Communities Foundation$30,00030%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc$18,00090%
Stepping Stones Inc$18,00090%
The Exmoor Foundation$14,00053%
Johnsburg School District 12$13,5003n/a
Northwest Community Hospital Foundation$12,90030%
Young Shakespeare Players Inc$12,00023%
Technical College of the Lowcountry Foundation Inc$12,00090%
Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of The Charles M Grant Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Indian Hill Church$100,0001n/a
Freestore Foodbank Inc$30,50090%
Life Enriching Communities Foundation$30,00030%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc$18,00090%
Stepping Stones Inc$18,00090%
The Exmoor Foundation$14,00053%
Johnsburg School District 12$13,5003n/a
Northwest Community Hospital Foundation$12,90030%
Young Shakespeare Players Inc$12,00023%
Technical College of the Lowcountry Foundation Inc$12,00090%
Sycamore Community Schools$10,0001n/a
Cincinnati Parks Foundation$9,00090%
Cincinnati Museum Association$9,00090%
The Christ Hospital Foundation$9,00090%
Children's Hospital Medical Center$8,00080%
Henry Ford Health System$7,00010%
The Children's Center Inc$6,00060%
St John the Baptist Church$6,0003n/a
The Land Conservancy of McHenry County$6,00011%
Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare$6,0001n/a
Pioneer Center for Human Services$6,00050%
Heritage Classic Foundation$6,00060%
Morris Animal Foundation$6,00010%
Golden Retriever Foundation$5,25010%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati$5,00010%
Dignity Health Foundation East Valley$5,00010%
The AKC Humane Fund Inc$4,00012%
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc$3,50010%
Preservation Foundation of the Lake County Forest Preserves$2,75030%
Green Beret Foundation$2,50040%
Friends of Saguaro National Park$2,0001n/a
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum$2,00010%
Second Bridge Inc$1,0001n/a
Arizona Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc$1,00010%
4 Paws for Ability Inc$1,00010%
Little Miami Conservancy$50010%
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charles M Grant Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $30,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLife Enriching Communities Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetStepping Stones Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Exmoor Foundation: $14,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetNorthwest Community Hospital Foundation: $12,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Shakespeare Players Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTechnical College of the Lowcountry Foundation Inc: $12,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Museum Association: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Ford Health System: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Land Conservancy of McHenry County: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPioneer Center for Human Services: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMorris Animal Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Retriever Foundation: $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetZoological Society of Cincinnati: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDignity Health Foundation East Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe AKC Humane Fund Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPreservation Foundation of the Lake County Forest Preserves: $2,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Beret Foundation: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetArizona-Sonora Desert Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Chapter Paralyzed Veterans of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget4 Paws for Ability Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Miami Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America

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.

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About The Charles M Grant Foundation

How much does The Charles M Grant Foundation give?
The Charles M Grant Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $54,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Charles M Grant Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (19%), Human Services (17%).
Who are The Charles M Grant Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Indian Hill Church ($100k), Freestore Foodbank Inc ($31k), Life Enriching Communities Foundation ($30k).
Does The Charles M Grant Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Charles M Grant Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Charles M Grant Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Charles M Grant Foundation based?
The Charles M Grant Foundation is based in OH.

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 52 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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