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Cheli's Children's Foundation

Provide charitable grants to organizations in order to support children's related charities in chicago, detroit, and other locations throughout the united states.

$35k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$30k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$450k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Cheli's Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$30k33%
FY20237$217k43%
FY20223$34k100%
FY20213$55k100%
FY20201$8kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$213kEducation$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kRecreation & Sports$30kHuman Services$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cheli's Children's Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTeen Cancer America Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetChicago Police Memorial Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Blackhawk Alumni Association: $30,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetButterfield Country Club Scholarship Program C/O William Capraro Jr: $30,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMahala's Hope Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe 100 Club of Illinois: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEb Research Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooks Strong Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetHigh Falls Ctr Developmentally Disabled: $7,610 over 1y, 8.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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.

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About Cheli's Children's Foundation

How much does Cheli's Children's Foundation give?
Cheli's Children's Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $30,000, out of $35,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Cheli's Children's Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (59%), Education (14%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
Who are Cheli's Children's Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Teen Cancer America Inc ($160k), Chicago Police Memorial Foundation ($30k), Chicago Blackhawk Alumni Association ($30k).
Does Cheli's Children's Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cheli's Children's Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Cheli's Children's Foundation based?
Cheli's Children's Foundation is based in IL.

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 12 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 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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