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CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES

CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,498 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($40,669). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$495k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$146k
Net assets
$655k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 29%
01What it does

What Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies does

Mission

To help cure pediatric epilepsy

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. 2025 accomplishments include:1. Involved in 9th Global Symposium on Ketogenic Therapies, Paris, France.2. Attended Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, Nashville, TN.3. Wrote and distributed 4 quarterly newsletters to 16,000 readers4. Continued fundraising for ketogenic related activities.5. Continued support of KetoDietCalculator, online professional calculator for managing medical ketogenic diet therapies6. Maintenance of the Charlie Foundation website and social media for the continuation of ketogenic therapy education resources

    $164,922 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $164,922.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($159k) Expenses 100 ($79k) Net assets 100 ($409k)2018 Revenue 69 ($109k) Expenses 184 ($146k) Net assets 91 ($372k)2019 Revenue 81 ($128k) Expenses 135 ($107k) Net assets 96 ($394k)2020 Revenue 61 ($97k) Expenses 137 ($109k) Net assets 93 ($381k)2021 Revenue 73 ($116k) Expenses 88 ($70k) Net assets 105 ($428k)2022 Revenue 51 ($81k) Expenses 131 ($104k) Net assets 99 ($405k)2023 Revenue 46 ($73k) Expenses 168 ($133k) Net assets 84 ($345k)2024 Revenue 66 ($104k) Expenses 144 ($114k) Net assets 82 ($335k)2025 Revenue 312 ($495k) Expenses 220 ($174k) Net assets 160 ($655k)
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Revenue (312)Expenses (220)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $335k to $655k (+96%).

$409k
$372k
$399k
$381k
$428k
$405k
$345k
$335k
$655k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$79k
’17
−$37k
’18
$22k
’19
−$12k
’20
$47k
’21
−$22k
’22
−$60k
’23
−$11k
’24
$320k
’25
45
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $20k.

7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES.

28%
largest funder
57%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 53% · 2020 73% · 2021 39% · 2022 68% · 2023 50% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

83% of CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $24k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside California, across 6 states.

IL
CA
VA
DE
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’19
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin65% · top quartile
Months of reserve45.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES?
CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES (California) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $146,498 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($40,669). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $146,498 in grants to CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES?
PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $40,669 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHARLIE FOUNDATION FOR KETOGENIC THERAPIES find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing