· Public charity
Cherokee Crossroads Inc
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN | $60,000 |
| ANNETTE G STRAUSS FAMILY GATEWAY | $35,000 |
| DALLAS CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHEROKEE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS | $15,000 |
| SALESMANSHIP CLUB | $10,000 |
| LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| HERO COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| GRANTASTARR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $2,500 |
| CHINN GUITAR PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DCDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +24%
- FGFAMILY GATEWAY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +112%
- SCSalesmanship Club of Dallas7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +23%
Funded once
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +38%- CACHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
- CMChoose Mental Healthgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +585%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Provide dental, general pediatric, and pediatric sub-specialty services, including, but not limited to emergency department coverage, inpatient coverage, orthopedic surgery, and craniofacial orthodontics regardless of payor source or…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
Provide anesthesia services to patients at children's medical center of dallas. these services are provided without regard to a patient's ability to pay for the services.
To advance children's health and well-being by advocating for policies and funding that promote children's access to high-quality, comprehensive health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is The Starr Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHEROKEE HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club of Dallas ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSON COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE REFUGE FOR DMST ↗
- Who funds HOPE SUPPLY CO ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEROES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PYTHIAN HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SM Wright Foundation ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CASA ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRANT-A-STARR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HERO COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Choose Mental Health ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE STARR FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Moody Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cherokee Crossroads Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.