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Cheeryble Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$268k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$777kArts & Culture$774kHuman Services$410kEducation$245kYouth Development$178kInternational$111kHousing & Shelter$107kReligion$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k38 grants · $91k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE THRIVING INITIATIVE$100,000
THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART$25,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA$15,450
SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART$14,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$12,311
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM$10,000
TMA (THIRD MILLENNIUM AWAKENING)$8,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS$6,000
PBS HAWAII$6,000
SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY$6,000
SANTA BARBARA ZOO$5,300
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$5,150
HEARTS OF THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER$5,145
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA$5,000
THE GRANADA THEATRE$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LINUS PROJECT: $1k → 8%LEGACY OF ALOHA FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $55k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $55k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $11k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $10k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $6k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA: $5k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $1k → 14%UNITY SHOPPE: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 57 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
40

Total granted

$2.6M
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+39%

Still filing today

56%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +217%
  • CF
    CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA
    4× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +105%
  • TI
    THRIVING INITIATIVE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $101k · revenue +188% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -33%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +103%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $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
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Santa Barbara Foundation

The mission of the santa barbara foundation (sbf) is to mobilize collective wisdom and philanthropic capital to build empathetic, inclusive and resilient communities.

Philanthropy
3
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
7
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
10
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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11
Santa Barbara Museum of Art

To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara; the most unlike its peers is Miracle League Los Angeles. 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

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
47/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART: $652,840 · OtherSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ARTCANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARA: $330,366 · OtherCANCER CENTER OF SANTA BARBARASANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $216,600 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARYGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $171,905 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARATMA (THIRD MILLENNIUM AWAKENING): $92,000 · Other+80 more: $343,137 · Other+80 moreCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $114,935 · HealthCANCER FOUNDATIO…THRIVING INITIATIVE: $101,000 · HealthTHRIVING INITIAT…SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $100,000 · HealthSANTA BARBARA NE…QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $100,000 · HealthQUEEN'S NORTH HA…+5 more: $8,280 · HealthTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $200,000 · Membership BenefitFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $152,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $31,000 · Human Services+5 more: $12,174 · Human ServicesDIRECT RELIEF: $99,072 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,811 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 · International+2 more: $3,000 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $4,700 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $250 · Housing & ShelterMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $69,414 · AnimalsSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $22,089 · Animals+4 more: $6,583 · Animals
Other$1,806,848Health$424,215Membership Benefit$200,000Human Services$195,674International$131,883Housing & Shelter$104,950Animals$98,086

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $171,905 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $152,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $114,935 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHRIVING INITIATIVE: $101,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetSANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetQUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $100,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $99,072 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $69,414 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $31,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC: $29,324 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $23,811 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $22,089 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO: $16,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $11,837 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $5,145 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,100 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $4,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF CARPINTERIA: $4,221 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FROM THE HEART INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCARPINTERIA ARTS CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COAST JR GOLF INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN MARCOS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetTHE FOOD BASKET INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIC SOUP KITCHEN: $1,875 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITY SHOPPE INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWSCO: $1,050 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $1,046 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION: $1,033 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECTRUM SAILING: $1,033 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LINUS: $1,029 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds THRIVING INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOOD CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S NORTH HAWAII COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds THE ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
  • Who funds Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTS THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗

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.

Santa Barbara Foundat…Ann Jackson Family Fo…Hutton Foundation Dba…Mosher FoundationWilliams-Corbett Foun…Latkin Charitable Fou…June G Outhwaite Char…The Wood-Claeyssens F…The Turpin-Allebrand …The B & B FoundationJames S Bower Foundat…Towbes Foundation
Santa Barbara FoundationCA36.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Cheeryble Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cheeryble Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 116 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home