· Private foundation
Cedar Fair Charities Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $280k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross | $2,737,000 |
| A Kid Again | $225,000 |
| Eric County Community Foundation | $55,000 |
| Council on Intl Educational Exchange | $30,000 |
| Breakthrough T1D Mid Atlantic Chapter | $15,000 |
| Eagles Autism Foundation | $13,799 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| The Childrens Heart Foundation | $5,000 |
| Spina Bifida Association | $5,000 |
| Cancer Support Community | $5,000 |
| Give Kids the World | $1,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AKA KID AGAIN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +130%
Feeding America3× · 2022–2024 · $92k · revenue +17%- COCouncil on International Educational Exchange Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2020 · $225k · revenue -28%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2020 · $88k · revenue +8%
- JMJDRF Michigan and Northern Ohio Chapterone grant, 2024 · $55k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cog research foundation, llc is a california 501(c)(3) entity founded in 2024 and designed to become the federal grantee organization for the children's oncology group (cog). the cog, a member of the national cancer institute (nci)…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The kidney cancer association is a global community dedicated to serving and empowering patients, and leading change through advocacy, research, and education in order to be the universal leader in finding the cure for kidney cancer.
The children's oncology group foundation, inc. (the foundation), helps support the research of the children's oncology group (cog), which is the world's largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
Chance for life's mission is to raise awareness and funds for critical research and clinical trials for pediatric cancer in the united states of america.
Our Mission is to inspire our communities to invest in health and scientific advances to improve the health of children and their families in Canada and around the world.
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Beat childhood cancer drives childhood cancer research and raises awareness, making a difference in kids' survival today. our vision is to change the story for the next family by finding viable treatments and ultimately, cures for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Council on International Educational Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds PRAYERS FROM MARIA CHILDREN'S GLIOMA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FIRELANDS ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CIEE Inc ↗
- Who funds HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Dolly Parton's Imagination Library ↗
- Who funds SPINA BIFIDA ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Soccer Foundation ↗
- Who funds PERKINS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SERVICES FKA CANCER SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cedar Fair Charities Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Council on International Educational Exchange Inc — 24% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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