· Private foundation
Cherry Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTER | $107,863 |
| SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES | $101,616 |
| GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE | $65,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,200 |
| CONSERVANCY OF SW FLORIDA | $17,500 |
| WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NANTUCKET WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL | $6,098 |
| THAYER ACADEMY | $1,877 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| IMPACT 100 DC | $1,200 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| WELLSPRING MULTISERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $431k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 11 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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
- GCGuadalupe Center Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $400k · revenue +2%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2023 · $40k · revenue +73%
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC4× · 2019–2022 · $15k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- NCNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +60%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
- ABANDREA BOCELLI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kyle Robinson Memorial Foundation Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 66 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 Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SWFL CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC SOUTHWEST FLORIDA WINE & FOOD FEST ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT100 DC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NAPLES LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Hull Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE N BOOKS INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Cherry Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Family Independence Inc — 60% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Naples Community Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 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.