Charlies Choice
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861187411
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Chanhassen, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6058707616
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Private Grantmaking Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,248
- Expenses
- $10,482
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Grantmaking Foundations
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 5 grants totaling $10,000. The stated grant purposes included charlies choice contribution will bring lifelong fresh water to 15 families in an isolated community in uganda., commitment to ensuring clean water clean hands and clean toilets for kids living in some of the worlds fastest-growing cities. splash has reached more than 1 million children in eight countries across asia and africa and we are not stopping there. we all know that kids need clean water to grow up healthy. thats why splash exists proving that clean water for kids at scale is possible and sustainable., and towards the work of ending the cycle of youth homelessness helping one youth at a time. standup will be able to continue to offer homeless and at-risk youth an array of services on the streets in outreach centers schools and other community sites. each year they develop life-changing relationships with hundreds of youth in each our 18 program cities across the united states. they not only provide young people with basic resources like food and clothing but we also provide mentoring counseling apartment support and everything in between., plus 2 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The foundation distributed 100% of its reported charitable disbursements as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes to charitable grants and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 100
- Cost Efficiency: 95
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 100
- Endowment Health: 72
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 100%; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 95.4%; rating input score 95; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 6.3; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: At least 100% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 72th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.