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Cherokee Crossroads Inc

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$214k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
9%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$928k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Cherokee Crossroads Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving23$214k13%
FY202322$230k9%
FY202220$158k0%
FY202124$345k8%
FY202022$313k18%
FY201914$248k7%
FY201818$280k11%
FY201718$293kn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$812kCrime & Legal$463kHealth$296kHousing & Shelter$170kPublic Safety & Disaster$120kYouth Development$116kFood & Nutrition$45kArts & Culture$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cherokee Home for Children$560,00082%
Dallas Children's Advocacy Center$350,00081%
Family Gateway Inc$170,00051%
Cherokee Volunteer Fire Department Inc$115,0008n/a
Salesmanship Club of Dallas$110,00070%
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America$105,00080%
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc$65,00052%
The Refuge for Dmst$65,00040%
Hope Supply Co$62,50080%
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$58,75080%
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Where it is load-bearing

Cherokee Crossroads Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCherokee Home for Children: $560,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetDallas Children's Advocacy Center: $350,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFamily Gateway Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSalesmanship Club of Dallas: $110,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWilliamson County Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetThe Refuge for Dmst: $65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHope Supply Co: $62,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children: $58,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHill Country Childrens Advocacy Center: $42,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $41,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Medical Center Foundation: $37,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHeroes for Children: $35,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Pythian Home Inc: $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSM Wright Foundation: $20,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDallas Casa: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLifesavers Foundation: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGrant-A-Starr Foundation: $12,500 over 6y, 88% of budgetHero Community Program Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Advocacy Center for North Texas Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of North Texas: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Starr Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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 28.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Cherokee Crossroads Inc

How much does Cherokee Crossroads Inc give?
Cherokee Crossroads Inc reported 23 grants totaling $214,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cherokee Crossroads Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Crime & Legal (22%), Health (14%).
Who are Cherokee Crossroads Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cherokee Home for Children ($560k), Dallas Children's Advocacy Center ($350k), Family Gateway Inc ($170k).
Does Cherokee Crossroads Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cherokee Crossroads Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, The Moody Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
Where is Cherokee Crossroads Inc based?
Cherokee Crossroads Inc is based in TX.

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 32 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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