California · Private foundation
Cheeryble Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $268k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 47
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Cheeryble Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $268k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $458k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $368k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $372k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $443k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $349k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $387k | 23% |
| FY2017 | 32 | $316k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Actors' Fund of America | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara | $171,905 | 6 | 2% |
| Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County | $152,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara | $114,935 | 4 | 0% |
| Thriving Initiative | $101,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Rescue Mission | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Direct Relief | $99,072 | 6 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $69,414 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 71 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cheeryble Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Latkin Charitable Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · The Turpin-Allebrand Family Charitable Foundation · The B & B Foundation · James S Bower Foundation · Towbes Foundation
How this is measured
About Cheeryble Foundation
- How much does Cheeryble Foundation give?
- Cheeryble Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $268,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cheeryble Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (26%), Arts & Culture (26%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Cheeryble Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Actors' Fund of America ($200k), Girls Incorporated of Greater Santa Barbara ($172k), Family Service Agency of Santa Barbara County ($153k).
- Does Cheeryble Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cheeryble Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cheeryble Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Cheeryble Foundation based?
- Cheeryble Foundation is based in CA.
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