· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ECCF GREATER LAWRENCE SUMMER FUND | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVEL AND EDUC FUND | $6,000 |
| ESSEX ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| BELLESINI ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOME AGAIN | $5,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARM | $4,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $4,000 |
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MA | $3,500 |
| COMMUNITY INROADS | $3,500 |
| TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS | $3,500 |
| M VALLEY IMMIGRANT AND EDUC CTR | $3,500 |
| GIRLS INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The Charlotte Home’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 13 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
LAZARUS HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +14%
Essex Art Center Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +92%- CICOMMUNITY INROADS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- LFLAWRENCE FAMILY DEV EDUCATION FDone grant, 2021 · $6k
- YOYWCA OF NORTHEASTERN MAone grant, 2020 · $5k
REGIS COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +5%
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…
Greater lawrence community action council, inc. creates opportunities by collaborating with the community and empowering individuals to achieve their goals.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is AfterSchool Partners Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 51 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.
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INROADS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SAVER MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA NORTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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: 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
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 Home 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.
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Cambridge College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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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