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The Charlotte Home

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.

$79k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Charlotte Home funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionPublic BenefitFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving18$79k17%
FY202319$75k21%
FY202218$72k17%
FY202119$68k21%
FY202020$77k45%
FY201920$74k25%
FY201818$71k44%
FY201715$61kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$152kEducation$106kHuman Services$74kRecreation & Sports$43kHousing & Shelter$33kArts & Culture$30kCivil Rights$30kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lazarus House Inc$31,00060%
Essex Art Center Inc$27,50071%
Community Inroads Inc$23,00082%
Life Saver Ministries Inc$20,50032%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$17,00050%
Cambridge College Inc$16,50050%
Straight Ahead Ministries INC$16,50050%
Project Home Again$16,50042%
Rar-Ma Inc$15,50060%
Bread & Roses Inc$13,00030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($327k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Charlotte Home supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLazarus House Inc: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Inroads Inc: $23,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetLife Saver Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetWindrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCambridge College Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetProject Home Again: $16,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetRar-Ma Inc: $15,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBread & Roses Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTop Notch Scholars Inc: $9,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFamily Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRegis College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Money Matters Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA Northeastern Massachusetts Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Living Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHome Health Vna Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Communityworks Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: $1,000 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 21.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA37.9× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rogers Family Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation M

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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How do I get to The Charlotte Home?

Find your warmest path to The Charlotte Home through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Charlotte Home

How much does The Charlotte Home give?
The Charlotte Home reported 18 grants totaling $78,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Charlotte Home fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (26%), Education (18%), Human Services (13%).
Who are The Charlotte Home's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lazarus House Inc ($31k), Essex Art Center Inc ($28k), Community Inroads Inc ($23k).
Does The Charlotte Home fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Charlotte Home 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 Charlotte Home?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Rogers Family Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Charlotte Home based?
The Charlotte Home is based in MA.

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 51 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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