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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $30,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $35,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$450k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chicago Police Memorial Foundation$10,000
Chicago Blackhawks Alumni Association$10,000
The Hundred Club$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Foundation to be named later: $15k → 16%Teen Cancer America: $125k → 14%High Falls Center for the Developmentally Disabled: $8k → 16%EB Research: $10k → 17%Mahala's Hope: $25k → 9%Brooks Strong Foundation: $10k → 7%The Hundred Club: $10k → 14%Special Summers Foundation: $9k → 4%Teen Cancer America: $35k → 14%Chicago Blackhawks Alumni Association: $20k → 7%Chicago Police Memorial Foundation: $10k → 14%Special Summers Foundation: $7k → 4%UCLA Foundation: $20k → 14%Chicago Blackhawks Alumni Association: $10k → 7%Chicago Police Memorial Foundation: $10k → 14%Butterfield Scholarship Program: $15k → 7%Chicago Police Memorial Foundation: $10k → 14%Butterfield Scholarship Program: $15k → 7%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$266k · 5 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$266k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +98%
  • CP
    CHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • CB
    CHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -3%

Funded once

  • MH
    MAHALA'S HOPE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -99%
  • FT
    Foundation to be named later
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +7%
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 Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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2
Cancer Bridges

Cancer bridges supports those impacted by cancer through a variety of free programs and services

Health
3
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

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…

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4
The Chicago Bar Foundation

The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
The Chicago Home for Incurables

The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…

Health
7
Polybio Research Foundation Inc

We are a 501(c)3 transforming how complex chronic conditions like longcovid, me/cfs & post treatment lyme disease are studied, diagnosed, and treated. polybio was founded by three scientists with complementary expertise (neuroscience,…

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8
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc

The mission of the breast cancer research foundation, inc. is to prevent and cure breast cancer by advancing the world's most promising research.

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Bloomfield Hills Country Club Caddie Scholarship Fund

The mission of the bloomfield hills country club caddie scholarship fund is to provide scholarships to deserving caddies who have demonstrated good character, integrity and leadership during their years of service as caddies to bloomfield…

Education
10
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
Uc Berkeley Chicano Latino Alumni Association

Uc berkeley chicanx latinx alumni association (claa) engages current and prospective alumni with uc berkeley communities and each other to elevate the tradition of academic and professional excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The 100 Club of Illinois; the most unlike its peers is High Falls Ctr Developmentally Disabled. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN CANCER AMERICA INCCHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherCHICAGO BLACKHAWK ALUMNI ASSOCIA…MAHALA'S HOPE INC: $25,000 · OtherMAHALA'S HOPE INCSpecial Summers Foundation: $15,788 · OtherSpecial Summers FoundationFoundation to be named later: $15,000 · OtherFoundation to be named laterTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $10,000 · OtherTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOISHIGH FALLS CTR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $7,610 · OtherHIGH FALLS CTR DEVELOPMENTALLY D…BUTTERFIELD COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM C/O WILLIAM CAPRARO JR: $30,000 · EducationBUTTERFIELD COU…UCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO P…EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · HealthBROOKS STRONG FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health
Youth Development$160,000Other$103,398Education$50,000Arts & Culture$30,000Health$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%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 · 0–15%
    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 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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