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The Charles 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$136kAnimals$19kEnvironment$18kYouth Development$8kPhilanthropy$6kHousing & Shelter$6kPublic Benefit$6kHuman Services$6kRecreation & Sports$4kOther$59k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
9
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUTTS WITH A MISSION$1,000
DENNIS TENNIS SERVING LOVE INC$1,000
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS$1,000
SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS$1,000
SOPHIE GERSON HEALTHY YOUTH INC$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC$750
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL$750
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA$500
GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS$500
AMERICA'S VETDOGS$500
FEED THE CHILDREN$500
PROJECT K9 HERO$500
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$500
PAWS OF HONOR$500
FLORIDA SHERRIFS YOUTH RANCH$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PLACE OF HOPE: $500 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $750 → 14%BLUE STAR SERVICE DOGS: $500 → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $750 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 56 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
25

Total granted

$224k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+10%

Still filing today

91%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • SA
    SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $126k · revenue +70%
  • THE DOE FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +37%
  • RI
    READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $5k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SA
    SAINT ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NY
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • I1
    IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
3
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
4
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
5
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
6
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
7
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
8
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Predator Defense

Protecting vital native predators & ending war on wildlife.

Animals
11
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
12
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Place of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Elementary Literacy TutoringFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Military Veterans SupportYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number27%5%<5yr16%2%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr15%11%20–35yr9%26%35–55yr12%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value27%3%<5yr16%1%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr15%5%20–35yr9%16%35–55yr12%71%55yr+

The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/68
the rest of the field
17%
17,089/102,976

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
56/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC — $125,500 · EducationSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INCTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,000 · EducationREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,550 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationSAINT ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF NY — $25,000 · OtherSAINT ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF THE S…DREAM — $8,000 · OtherDREAMTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,900 · OtherSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $2,750 · OtherPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,500 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,250 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $2,500 · Other+40 more — $25,970 · Other+40 moreDefenders of Wildlife — $2,650 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $2,600 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $2,400 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,250 · AnimalsBIDEAWEE INC — $1,700 · AnimalsPAWS OF HONOR INC — $1,500 · AnimalsAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $1,400 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INC — $950 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $800 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $750 · AnimalsPROJECT K9 HERO — $700 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC — $650 · Animals+1 more — $600 · AnimalsOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $3,150 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,800 · EnvironmentNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,950 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,750 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,700 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,650 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $1,200 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,200 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $1,200 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests — $700 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $2,700 · Youth DevelopmentPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOPHIE GERSON HEALTHY YOUTH INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $900 · Youth DevelopmentROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,660 · PhilanthropyIMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $1,050 · Philanthropy+1 more — $200 · PhilanthropyTHE DOE FUND INC — $6,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$135,550Other$73,870Animals$18,950Environment$17,800Youth Development$7,600Philanthropy$6,410Housing & Shelter$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF BOCA RATON INC — $125,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC — $4,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $4,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $3,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS — $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $2,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $2,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION — $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $2,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $2,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIE GERSON HEALTHY YOUTH INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $1,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $1,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THIRTEEN INC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDennis Tennis Serving Love Inc — $1,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC — $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $1,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIDEAWEE INC — $1,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,660 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $1,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF HONOR INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $1,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $1,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $1,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARNEGIE HILL NEIGHBORS INC — $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Spannocchia — $950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK COUNTY POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSION CONTINUES — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT K9 HERO — $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Charles Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Dennis Tennis Serving Love Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Charles Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Charles Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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