Earle P Charlton Jr-charlton Mem

Overview

This trust traces to Earle Perry Charlton (1863-1930), who founded E.P. Charlton & Company in 1890 in Fall River, Massachusetts (a five-and-dime chain that merged with associated retailers to form the F.W. Woolworth Company in 1912, alongside partner Seymour H. Knox, a Woolworth-family cousin). Charlton's charitable trust has funded hospitals, schools, and universities in the Fall River area for nearly a century (a modern-day equivalent of roughly $1bn given), and he is commemorated by Charlton Memorial Hospital. Note: several separate Charlton-family charitable trusts exist under similar names (a distinct 'Charlton Charity Trust,' a separate 'Earle P. Charlton, Jr. Discretionary Charitable Trust,' and a 'Truesdale Hospital' trust) -- this row's Memorial-Hospital-linked naming points specifically to the trust associated with Charlton Memorial Hospital, but exact EIN-level attribution among the family's several trusts was not independently confirmed.

Key Facts

Type

Foundation