· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BELLESINI ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ESSEX ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| PROJECT HOME AGAIN | $5,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARM | $4,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $4,000 |
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $4,000 |
| COMMUNITY INROADS | $3,500 |
| TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS | $3,500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MA | $3,500 |
| M VALLEY IMMIGRANT AND EDUC CTR | $3,500 |
| M VALLEY YMCA LAWRENCE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Charlotte Home’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charlotte Home funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charlotte Home. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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