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The Chartis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$425k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$222k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Chartis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalOther
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
FY2025still arriving10$425k50%
FY20243$150k33%
FY20232$75k100%
FY20227$275k86%
FY20212$100k0%
FY20203$150k67%
FY20193$85k67%
FY20186$275kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$200kYouth Development$150kHousing & Shelter$50kInternational$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
KS
NC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($650k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chartis Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHoward Brown Health Center: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcDermott Center: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity Settlement Society of New York: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Women's Breast & Heart Initiative Florida Affiliate Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetHealth Brigade: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHill Country Medical Ministriesinc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Center for Black Women's Wellness Cbww Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMercy Care Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChicago Women's Health Center: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetInfant Welfare Society of Chicago: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPreeclampsia Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDirect Relief: $10,000 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 14.

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.

National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics IncVA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About The Chartis Foundation

How much does The Chartis Foundation give?
The Chartis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $425,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Chartis Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Human Services (13%), Youth Development (10%).
Who are The Chartis Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Door - a Center of Alternatives Inc ($150k), Howard Brown Health Center ($150k), McDermott Center ($100k).
Does The Chartis Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Chartis Foundation 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 Chartis Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is The Chartis Foundation based?
The Chartis Foundation 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 24 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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