Charles Family Foundation Inc
New Franken, WI · EIN 26-3925889. Reported 160 grants totalling $2,596,967 to 53 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Charles Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $300 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Bay Beach | Green Bay, WI | $690,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $460,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Grace - Green Bay Area Catholic Education | Green Bay, WI | $380,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Green Bay Preble Optimist Foundation | Green Bay, WI | $176,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Rawhide Boys Ranch | New London, WI | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley | Appleton, WI | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Children's Hospital of Wi Foundation | Milwaukee, WI | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stella Maris Foundation Inc | Green Bay, WI | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Autism Society of Southeastern Wi | Wauwatosa, WI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | Green Bay, WI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| YWCA | Green Bay, WI | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Appleton, WI | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Encompass Early Education and Care Inc | Green Bay, WI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pierce Downer Elementary School | Downers Grove, IL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Cerebral Palsy Inc | Green Bay, WI | $22,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Curative Connections | Green Bay, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Wisconsin | De Pere, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Peninsula Players | Fish Creek, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salvation Army | Green Bay, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Louis Parish | Luxemburg, WI | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown County Foster Care | Green Bay, WI | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $12,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Izaak Walton League - Brown County Chapter | Green Bay, WI | $12,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Holy Cross Catholic School | Green Bay, WI | $11,802 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Families in Transition Support Network Inc | Wisconsin Dells, WI | $11,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Badger Boys State Inc | Portage, WI | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Green Bay Community Foundation | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Ski Patrol Intermountain Division | Lakewood, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| On the Mark Dyslexia Clinic | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| YMCA | Green Bay, WI | $10,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| CASA of Brown County | Green Bay, WI | $9,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brown County Oral Health Partnership | Green Bay, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics | Madison, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St John's Ministries | Green Bay, WI | $8,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jackson Hole Therapeutic Riding Association | Teton Village, WY | $7,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Downer's Grove Junior Women's Club | Downers Grove, IL | $6,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brain Center of Green Bay | Green Bay, WI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Howe Community Resource Center | Green Bay, WI | $5,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Huntsman Cancer Foundation | Salt Lake City, UT | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kewaunee Youth Basketball | Kewaunee, WI | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Green Bay, WI | $3,800 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mission Teens Inc | Marked Tree, AR | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Movember Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $2,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Exceptional Equestrians | De Pere, WI | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Green Bay Sail & Paddle | Green Bay, WI | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association | Chicago, IL | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Occupaws Guide Dog Association | Madison, WI | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Texas CASA | Austin, TX | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | Kimberly, ID | $1,065 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation | Southfield, MI | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Battle Creek Community Foundation | Homer, MI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hopsfm - Ps Food Mart Charities | Homer, MI | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
43 of 53 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 93%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Mayo Clinic
UNRESTRICTED DONATION FOR GREATEST NEEDS AT MAYO CLINIC - Friends of Bay Beach
FUNDING FOR BEACH IMPROVEMENTS - Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley
UNRESTRICTED GRANT TO SUPPORT OPERATIONS - Grace - Green Bay Area Catholic Education
SPECIAL STAFF GRANTS FOR THE GRACE MASTER'S DEGREE PATH PROGRAM AND TOP TEACHER TALENT AWARDS FUNDING - Green Bay Preble Optimist Foundation
TO SUPPORT YOUTH PROGRAMS AND EVENTS. - Rawhide Boys Ranch
TO FUND CHARITABLE OBJECTIVES OF CHARITY
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 93 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 35 | $662,634 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 34 | $494,800 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 46 | $762,733 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 45 | $676,800 | $5,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 79% of this one's giving went to organizations in Wisconsin. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Wisconsin.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Charles Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 5845 N Shore Acres, New Franken, WI, 54229. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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