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Chagrin Valley Charities Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0174% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$107kHuman Services$33kArts & Culture$20kPhilanthropy$12kEducation$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$600
Median grant
3
States reached
$710k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$14,437
THERASAGE CORPORATION$1,141
DR SHAHRZAD ORONA NMD$600
Individual grant recipient$490
DRIVINGMBA$450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Camelback Bible Church: $21k → 11%MATTHEW HAUGEN GOFUNDME: $5k → 7%HITECH AIR SOLUTIONS: $8k → 13%THERASAGE CORPORATION: $1k → 11%National Christian Foundation: $5k → 13%HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $3k → 6%American Friends of Tyndale House: $10k → 7%Camelback Bible Church: $11k → 11%HITECH AIR SOLUTIONS: $490 → 13%Wheaton College: $7k → 7%Camelback Bible Church: $11k → 11%American Friends of Tyndale House: $5k → 7%SERVICEMASTER RESTORATION BY TACTIC: $8k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE: $5k → 7%CAMELBACK BIBLE CHURCH: $10k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TYNDALE HOUSE: $5k → 7%Bright Path Wellness: $2k → 11%MINISTRY & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%DRIVINGMBA: $450 → 11%American Friends of Tyndale House: $5k → 7%SHANNON STAIRS: $71k → 11%WHEATON COLLEGE: $2k → 7%SHANNON STAIR: $14k → 11%SHANNON STAIRS: $12k → 11%SHANNON STAIRS: $7k → 11%Grace Bible Church: $5k → 11%SHANNON STAIR: $3k → 11%DR SHAHRZAD ORONA NMD: $600 → 11%Salvation Army: $5k → 11%Salvation Army: $5k → 11%EVERLASTING WINDOW & DOOR: $10k → 11%PHOENIX SEMINARY: $5k → 11%PHOENIX SEMINARY: $5k → 11%Scottsdale Protech: $867 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$260k · 10 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$260k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+152%
+336%

Still filing today

40%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HW
    HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +213%
  • PS
    PHOENIX SEMINARY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • AF
    American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • SR
    SERVICEMASTER RESTORATION BY TACTIC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
2
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education
3
Eternity Bible College

As an institution of christian higher education, eternity bible college exists to glorify god through graduates whose lives are transformed by rigorous study of the bible as scripture, empassioned love for god, and gracious service in the…

Education
4
Champion Christian College Inc

To develop christ-centered servant leaders through a challenging academic environment in order to impact the world for the kingdom of god.

Education
5
Harvest Seminary Inc

To provide christian theological education in various educational and missionary programs to teach and train students for world wide christian mission.

Religion
6
Harvest University

Harvest university is committed to cultivating future ministers who will take the gospel to the ends of the earth. we offer online classes to train missionaries, pastors, and others who want to make an impact for christ through other…

Religion
7
Emmaus Ministries

Provides non-denominational education, and other activities including school for bible study, lecture series, seminars and retreats, all designed to increase the understanding of the bible.

Religion
8
Heritage Bible College

To equip students with professional competence, academic distinction, and an informed biblical worldview so that they will be set apart as people whose experience is pentecostal, whose standard is holiness, and whose goal is excellence in…

Education
9
Lutheran Theological Seminary Henry Grove
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10
The Academy of the New Church

The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…

Education
11
The Bible Seminary

To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.

Education
12
Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary

Trinity equips men and women with a christian world view of leadership and service in life, work and minsitry through distance education that encourages professional and academic excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College; the most unlike its peers is Ministry & Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 25 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $91,184 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMELBACK BIBLE CHURCH: $52,154 · OtherCAMELBACK BIBLE CHURCHAmerican Friends of Tyndale House: $20,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Tyndale HouseIndividual grant recipient: $17,828 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSalvation Army: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $9,756 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,412 · Other+11 more: $35,452 · Other+11 moreHARVEST FOUNDATION: $25,000 · ReligionHARVEST FOUN…American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $10,000 · ReligionAmerican Fri…PHOENIX SEMINARY INC: $10,000 · EducationWheaton College: $9,336 · EducationHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $3,000 · EducationHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$244,786Religion$35,000Education$22,336Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARVEST FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPHOENIX SEMINARY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWheaton College: $9,336 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds HARVEST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
  • Who funds American Friends of Tyndale House Cambridge Inc ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds MINISTRY & EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA12.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chagrin Valley Charities Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chagrin Valley Charities Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Chagrin Valley Charities Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chagrin Valley Charities Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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