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.

Cherokee Crossroads Inc

Cherokee Crossroads Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Cherokee Crossroads Inc

Put on a music festival to raise funds for grants to 501(c)3 organizations.

$214k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $54k
$10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$928k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
HERO COMMUNITY PROGRAM INC	$5,000
NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK	$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS	$5,000
TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE CHILDREN	$5,000
LIFE SAVERS FOUNDATION	$5,000
SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION	$2,500
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$2,500
MAKEAWISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEX	$2,500
MARCH OF DIMES	$2,500

02The need

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 25 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+204%

Still filing today

88%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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

DC
DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +20%
FG
FAMILY GATEWAY INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +112%
SC
Salesmanship Club of Dallas
7× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +23%

Funded once

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +38%
CA
CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +4%
CM
Choose Mental Healthgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +585%

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.

Children's Health System of Texas

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.…

Health

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Children's Hospital

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…

Health

Children's Health Care

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.

Health

Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health

Dallas Physician Medical Services for Children Inc

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…

Health

Cook Children's Physician Network

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.

Health

Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

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.

Health

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

Cook Children's Health Plan

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.

Health

Anesthesiologists for Children

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.

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Children's Hospital Association of Texas

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/29

Grantees still filing

22/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$1,041,000Other$428,000Health$197,500Housing & Shelter$170,000Crime & Legal$112,500Community Improvement$110,000Civil Rights$20,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cherokee Crossroads Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cherokee Crossroads Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

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