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The Chartis Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $350k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$222k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE HAYMARKET CENTER$50,000
M-CARE HEALTHCARE$50,000
THE UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NY$50,000
CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS$50,000
RAISINGHEALTH PARTNERS$50,000
CARE RING$50,000
THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC$50,000
TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$25,000
WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEIGHTBORHOOD OUTREACH TO ACCESS HEALTH: $25k → 11%THE DIMOCK CENTER: $50k → 16%DIRECT RELIEF: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NY: $50k → 17%RAISINGHEALTH PARTNERS: $50k → 20%SAMARITAN HEALTH MINISTRIES: $50k → 6%LBU COMMUNITY CLINIC: $25k → 14%THE PREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%M-CARE HEALTHCARE: $50k → 16%AGAPE FAMILY HEALTH: $50k → 12%CARE RING: $50k → 10%CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS: $50k → 13%TEPEYAC COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 12%CHICAGO WOMENS HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 14%FAN FREE CLINICHEALTH BRIGADE: $50k → 9%NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 13%THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50k → 17%WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE: $25k → 15%M-CARE HEALTHCARE: $50k → 16%CARE RING: $50k → 10%MERCY CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 13%HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 14%THE HEALTH BRIGADE: $50k → 9%THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50k → 17%M-CARE HEALTHCARE: $50k → 16%HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 14%THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $50k → 17%HOWARD BROWN HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 14%THE KEDZIE CENTER: $50k → 14%THE KEDZIE CENTER: $50k → 14%THE KEDZIE CENTER: $50k → 14%THE HAYMARKET CENTER: $50k → 14%THE HAYMARKET CENTER: $50k → 14%INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $25k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$950k · 8 repeat orgs$585k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$950k
$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+44%

Still filing today

63%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HB
    Howard Brown Health Center
    3× · 2018–2021 · $150k · revenue +96%
  • MC
    McDermott Center
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +12%
  • CR
    Care Ring Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • HB
    HEALTH BRIGADEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +83%
  • FF
    FAN FREE CLINICHEALTH BRIGADE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • HC
    HILL COUNTRY MEDICAL MINISTRIESINC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -6%
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
Detroit Community Health Connection

Dchc is a primary care organization committed to providing accessible, affordable and quality service to all members of the communities we serve.

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2
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc

The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…

Health
3
African American Mens Health Clinic

Bmhc is a no wrong-door safety net program for men of color. our patients receive a head-to-toe assessment to address all possible concerns which will inform our health care professionals of the current state of your health. any validated…

Health
4
Whitman-Walker Clinic Inc

Health center with comprehensive community-based medical, behavioral, dental and various navigation, outreach, engagement and education supports for underserved communities and specific expertise in lgbtq and hiv care.

Health
5
Jwch Institute Inc

The specific purposes of this organization are:(a) to provide outpatient primary health service in underserved areas and/or for medically underserved populations as a community clinic. (b) to develop, promote, and manage health care…

Health
6
North Central Texas Community Health Care Center

To provide access to quality, affordable, primary care and preventative services by reaching out to everyone, including the underserved. program services are delivered through ten clinical sites located throughout wichita falls, vernon,…

Health
7
Virtua Medical Group Pa

The physicians of virtua medical group (vmg) share a common philosophy in all they do: to create an outstanding experience for patients. in a broad range of specialties, from family medicine to surgery to oncology, vmg's highly-trained…

Health
8
Community Healthcare Network

Chn provides a broad range of health services including but not limited to primary and preventative care, and mental health services to a largely medically underserved population.

Health
9
Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers

Wayne Memorial Community Health Centers creates and sustains healthy rural communities by providing accessible, high quality medical, dental and behavioral health care for all, while recognizing and addressing other factors that influence…

Health
10
Healthcore Clinic Inc

The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.

Health
11
Washington Health Institute

To improve the health of our community by providing holistic, patient-centered, outcomes driven care, support services, and health sciences research to transform the lives of our patients, their families, and underserved communities. we…

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Women's Health Center; the most unlike its peers is Preeclampsia Foundation Inc. 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

15 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. 15 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $150,000 · OtherTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INCM-CARE HEALTHCARE: $150,000 · OtherM-CARE HEALTHCAREHoward Brown Health Center: $150,000 · OtherHoward Brown Health CenterTHE KEDZIE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherTHE KEDZIE CENTERMcDermott Center: $100,000 · OtherMcDermott CenterNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER: $100,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTERUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $50,000 · OtherRAISINGHEALTH PARTNERS: $50,000 · OtherHEALTH BRIGADE: $50,000 · OtherFAN FREE CLINICHEALTH BRIGADE: $50,000 · OtherHILL COUNTRY MEDICAL MINISTRIESINC: $50,000 · OtherTHE DIMOCK CENTER: $50,000 · OtherAGAPE FAMILY HEALTH: $50,000 · Other+4 more: $100,000 · Other+4 moreCare Ring Inc: $100,000 · HealthCare Ring IncTHE WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE FLORIDA AFFILIATE INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE WOMEN'S BREAST &…THE CENTER FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS CBWW INC: $50,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR BLACK…MERCY CARE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthMERCY CARE FOUNDATIO…LA CLINICA TEPEYAC: $25,000 · HealthLA CLINICA TEPEYACPREECLAMPSIA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthPREECLAMPSIA FOUNDAT…DIRECT RELIEF: $10,000 · International
Other$1,250,000Health$275,000International$10,000

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

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
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.

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 …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Preeclampsia Foundation Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home