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Cherry Bekaert Foundation

CHERRY BEKAERT FOUNDATION is committed to carrying out our value of making a difference in our communities.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Youth Development$106kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kFood & Nutrition$18kInternational$18kHuman Services$11kEducation$10k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $187,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $307,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $119,500 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$18,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$884k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA$100,000
FEEDING FLORIDA INC$18,000
DIRECT RELIEF$18,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$18,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - EMERGENCY DISASTER SERVICES$18,000
OASIS OPPORTUNITIES$10,000
PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE$5,700
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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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $18k → 14%PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $6k → 14%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 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
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
2
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
3
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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4
North Texas Food Bank

To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.

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5
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
6
Alameda County Community Food Bank

Alameda county community food bank passionately pursues a hunger-free community.

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7
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
9
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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10
Islamic Relief Usa

Islamic relief usa provides relief and development in a dignified manner regardless of gender, race, or religion, and works to empower individuals in their communities and give them a voice in the world.

International
11
The Houston Food Bank

Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…

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12
Hunger Free America Inc

Hunger free america (hfa) is a nonpartisan, national nonprofit organization building the movement to enact the policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure that all americans have sufficient access to nutritious food.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches; the most unlike its peers is People Loving Nashville. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USATHE SALVATION ARMY: $18,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFEEDING FLORIDA INC: $18,000 · OtherFEEDING FLORIDA INCJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,700 · OtherJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CEN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $5,700 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…PEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $5,700 · Human ServicesPEOPLE LOVING…DIRECT RELIEF: $18,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…OASIS Network of New Tampa Inc: $10,000 · Education
Youth Development$100,000Other$47,400Human Services$23,700International$18,000Education$10,000

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 budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING FLORIDA INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS Network of New Tampa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJOHN H BONER COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER AUGUSTA INC: $5,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE LOVING NASHVILLE: $5,700 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 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 Cherry Bekaert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cherry Bekaert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Feeding Florida Inc: 32% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Cherry Bekaert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Cherry Bekaert Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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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