Colorado · Nonprofit
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,195,364 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($154,810,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Chemical Societyshared funders
- National Alliance for Public Charter Schoolsportfolio match
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $25M → $136M.
7 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
33% 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 CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 63% · 2019 19% · 2020 33% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% — 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
55% of CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
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
CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $272M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 43 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- National Alliance for Public Charter Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Campaign for Great Public Schoolsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Carolina Childrens Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellwether Education Partners Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Educauseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevate 215portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Spencer Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 85 organizations that share your funders
- The Bouncer Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susquehanna Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
46%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Csgf Memphis LLC · disregarded
- Csgf Facilities Fund III LLC · disregarded
- Csgf Memphis Facility Fund LLC · disregarded
- Csgf NYC Facility Fund LLC · disregarded
- Csgf Senior Debt Fund LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND?
- CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND (Colorado) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $820,195,364 to it, the largest being THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($154,810,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $820,195,364 in grants to CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND?
- THE BLOOMBERG FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 43funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing