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The Charter Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$404k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MHuman Services$265kRecreation & Sports$237kCrime & Legal$204kYouth Development$194kHealth$166kEnvironment$153kArts & Culture$124kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$5,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP VIOLA INC$70,000
HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE$50,000
CHAMBERS CO COUNCIL FOR NEGLECTED$50,000
POINT UNIVERSITY$25,000
INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET$16,000
FEEDING THE VALLEY INC$16,000
LAGRANGE TROUP COUNTY HOMELESS$16,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WEST POINT$15,000
TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$14,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER$12,500
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE$10,000
CLOCKWORK YOUTH ACADEMY$10,000
CHATTAHOOCHEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC$10,000
ACCOUNTABILITY TROUP INC$9,500
NEWBIRTH OUTREACH CENTER INC$9,163
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $180k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TRUTH IN NATURE INC: $16k → 10%IAMHOLDENON: $15k → 13%TRUTH IN NATURE INC: $8k → 10%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAGRANGE: $25k → 18%CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 8%NEW BIRTH OUTREACH CENTER: $10k → 21%NEWBIRTH OUTREACH CENTER INC: $9k → 21%TROUP TRANSFORMATION: $6k → 18%ELVTD YOUTH AND MENTORING INC: $1k → 18%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $10k → 21%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 21%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 21%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 21%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE: $10k → 18%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE: $10k → 18%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 21%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE: $6k → 18%CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER: $5k → 21%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CEN: $6k → 18%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $5k → 18%CIRCLES OF TROUP COUNTY: $5k → 18%CIRCLES OF TROUP COUNTY: $5k → 18%HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $2k → 18%GEORGIA SHERIFF'S YOUTH HOMES: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 54 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
123

Total granted

$2.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+16%

Still filing today

46%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HM
    HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +196%
  • CV
    CAMP VIOLA INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $151k · revenue +135%
  • CR
    CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • SD
    SEE DETAIL ATTACHED
    one grant, 2022 · $423k
  • EE
    EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CC
    CHAMBERS COUNTY LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lifegate Counseling Center At Peachtree Inc

At lifegate counseling center at peachtree, our vision is to foster an environment in which lives are transformed, relationships are reconciled and hope is found. we offer a vast array of faith-sensitive physotherapeutic services and…

Health
2
Tallahassee Christian College & Training Center

Provide education on biblical concepts and values to the community.

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3
LUKE10 Ministries Inc

The vision of luke10 ministries inc is to help all residents of sw georgia to understand, appreciate and embrace cultural diversity and demonstrate the love of jesus. luke1o ministries inc accomplishes this by a holistic approach to…

Religion
4
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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5
The Hope Center

A ministry offering a wide range of services to help meet essential needs, education advancement and counseling of individuals and families in northeast georgia. these services include providing food services, shower and laundry…

—
6
Life Choice Center

To provide christian based outreach to clients by providing services and information free of charge to anyone in a crisis pregnancy situation, with the goal of assisting the client to carry the pregnancy to term and with continued care…

Health
7
Church of God Children's Home of North Carolina Inc

To provide a positive and safe living environment for hurting, abused, neglected and at-risk children placed privately and by the north carolina department of social services

Human Services
8
Family Promise of Cobb County

Our mission is to assist homeless families with children achieve adequate and consistent income, stable housing,and lasting independence by mobilizing local interfaith communities to provide temporary meals, shelter, compassionate…

Human Services
9
Life Resources of Georgia Inc

To provide educational opportunities and training for preganancy centers in the state of georgia.

Health
10
Wnc Lighthouse Inc

The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…

Human Services
11
The Drake House Inc

To empower women and their children experiencing homelessness to achieve economic independence and long-term stability.

Housing & Shelter
12
Community Helping Place Inc

To address with care and compassion the needs of the people of lumpkin county georgia by offering charitable humanitarian services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony House Domestic Violence She Inc; the most unlike its peers is West point vision. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

60 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 60 of the 191 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
34/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POINT UNIVERSITY INC: $470,000 · OtherPOINT UNIVERSITY INCSEE DETAIL ATTACHED: $423,448 · OtherSEE DETAIL ATTACHED+154 more: $1,686,526 · Other+154 moreHILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC: $165,000 · EducationLaGrange College: $55,000 · EducationTroup County College & Career Academy Inc: $10,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationCHATTAHOOCHEE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $9,900 · Education+8 more: $19,300 · EducationHARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC: $39,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $34,500 · Human ServicesMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAGRANGE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTRUTH IN NATURE INC: $23,300 · Human ServicesNEWBIRTH OUTREACH CENTER: $19,163 · Human ServicesCONNECTED CONTENT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLES OF TROUP COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $19,200 · Human ServicesCAMP VIOLA INC: $151,484 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $129,500 · EnvironmentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterLAGRANGE TROUP COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterNEWNAN-COWETA ANGEL'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterINTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET: $40,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding the Valley Inc: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBTG COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,579,974Education$269,200Human Services$185,163Recreation & Sports$159,984Environment$129,500Housing & Shelter$76,000Food & Nutrition$65,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPOINT UNIVERSITY INC: $470,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC: $165,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCAMP VIOLA INC: $151,484 over 5y, 21% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $129,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLaGrange College: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET: $40,500 over 6y, 26% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC: $39,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $37,500 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetHOPE HARBOR INC: $36,250 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNEW VENTURES INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC: $34,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetNEW HORIZON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $30,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAGRANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetSAV-A-LIFE LANETTVALLEY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetTWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH IN NATURE INC: $23,300 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFeeding the Valley Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEWBIRTH OUTREACH CENTER: $19,163 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLAGRANGE TROUP COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $16,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONNECTED CONTENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCASA OF TROUP COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSELF-HELP HARBOR INC: $12,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTroup County College & Career Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCIRCLES OF TROUP COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY INC: $9,900 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE EXCEPTIONAL WAY INC: $8,300 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF LAGRANGE INC: $8,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLAGRANGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTROUP COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $8,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTROUP TRANSFORMATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLAGRANGE ART MUSEUM INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN'S HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCoweta Pregnancy Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetRESCUE K9-1-1 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEWNAN-COWETA ANGEL'S HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget10 WOMEN OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSTORYBOOK FARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAGRANGE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY MEDICAL MINISTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCARROLL SAV-A-LIFE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTROUP COUNTY CENTER FOR STRATEGIC PLANNING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF TROUP CO INC: $3,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetFORT TYLER ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 67% of budget
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 POINT UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSIDE MONTESSORI OF LAGRANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP VIOLA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LaGrange College ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET ↗
  • Who funds HARMONY HOUSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HARBOR INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF LAGRANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAV-A-LIFE LANETTVALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CEDARS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUTH IN NATURE 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.

Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley IncGA34.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Hart Family Foundation Inc · The Ekkebus Family Foundation Inc · The Lanier Family Foundation · United Way of West Georgia Inc · Davison Bruce Foundation · Lockwood Partners Foundation Inc · Capital City Bank Group Foundation Inc · Markle Family Foundation Inc · George S & Edna L Cobb Foundation CO Synovus Trust Company · The Devereaux F and Dorothy M McClatchey Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Charter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Charter Foundation Inc 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.

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 191 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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