· Private foundation
The Sam & Charles Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WILMA THEATER | $10,000 |
| BEARDED LADIES CABARET | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,300 |
| BALLETX | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC | $5,000 |
| DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE NORTH AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION INC | $5,000 |
| AFRICAN HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $2,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TWTHE WILMA THEATER4× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +47%
- BLBEARDED LADIES CABARET2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +25%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- IHINTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -88%
- TATHE ARKone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is African Hopeful Horizons Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE WILMA THEATER ↗
- Who funds BEARDED LADIES CABARET ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DRUGS FOR NEGLECTED DISEASES INITIATIVE NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN HOPEFUL HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds PAINTED BRIDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Employment Source Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lida Foundation · Wyncote Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The William Penn Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Sam & 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.
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.