Connecticut · Private foundation
Cherry Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $777k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Cherry Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $70k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $72k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $72k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $69k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $73k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $147k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $82k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $51k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neighborhood Connections Inc | $62,665 | 7 | 3% |
| Town of Branford | $45,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of McGill University Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Brittany Rescue in Texas Inc | $23,500 | 6 | 11% |
| Vermont Foodbank | $22,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Desmonds Army Animal Law Advocates | $20,000 | 5 | 19% |
| For the Talented Sports Company | $17,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Connecticut State University Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Farm River Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Simply Live and Love Fully Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($301k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cherry Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Cherry Family Foundation
- How much does Cherry Family Foundation give?
- Cherry Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $69,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cherry Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (33%), Education (21%), Health (11%).
- Who are Cherry Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Neighborhood Connections Inc ($63k), Town of Branford ($45k), Friends of McGill University Inc ($35k).
- Does Cherry Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cherry Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cherry Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cherry Family Foundation based?
- Cherry Family Foundation is based in CT.
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