California · Nonprofit
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 275 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,349,291 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,507,100). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $68M
- Funders on record
- 275
- Grants received
- $128M
- Net assets
- $55M
What Edward Charles Foundation does
Mission
We act as a fiscal sponsor of charitable projects, funds and charitable events to advance worthwhile causes and to assist solving some of the world's biggest problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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$43,581,336 spentof which $25,460,818 as grants79% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $55,441,273.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.7M to $37M (+552%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
107% of EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kent Seton
CEO, CFO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 92 funders, grant income rose $3.5M → $16M.
63 of 275 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Edward Charles Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 275 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
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
86% 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 EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 44% · 2019 18% · 2020 17% · 2021 51% · 2022 20% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
69% of EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION'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 $39M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside California, across 31 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89M arriving through sponsors registered in 26 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.
Against its field
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION
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.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 4 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION?
- EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 275 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,349,291 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($19,507,100). 94 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 275 organizations giving $128,349,291 in grants to EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION, 94 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $19,507,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION 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.
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 275 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing