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The Charlotte Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $432k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Social Innovation Forum | $225,800 |
| EdVestors Inc | $130,000 |
| Skidmore College | $76,000 |
| Yale Club of Boston | $9,264 |
| The Avenue Concept | $5,200 |
| Dwight Hall at Yale | $4,000 |
| Bridges Homeward | $4,000 |
| Mass Poetry | $3,500 |
| Shades Alumni Family Inc | $3,500 |
| Colab High School Stem Career Collaboration | $3,000 |
| PEF Israel Endowment Funds | $3,000 |
| Philantrophy Massachusetts | $2,500 |
| Block Island Conservancy | $2,500 |
| United for a Fair Economy | $1,200 |
| Arts Emerson | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $730k · revenue +78%- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $159k · revenue +19%
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $38k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- FHFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High Schoolone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +9%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +32%- UIUASPIRE INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
To maintain, sustain, improve, augment, promote, and publicize a walking trail connecting boston's historic sites. the organization also provides educational insight as to the walking trail and its rich history.
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gbh Foundation Trust. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 152 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Devonshire Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill
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 organization The Charlotte Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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