· Private foundation
Chickesaw Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $12,000 |
| KENTUCKY VETERANS CEMETERY NORTH | $7,000 |
| VIETAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND | $7,000 |
| MT WASHINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FLEMING ISLAND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| CLIFTON CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $5,000 |
| CINCY PARKS | $2,000 |
| THE SCHOOL HOUSE SYMPHONY | $2,000 |
| CLOVERNOOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $53 |
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 (FY17–23, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of Chickesaw Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 28% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- HFHONOR FLIGHT INC4× · 2018–2021 · $50k · revenue +129%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $39k · revenue +83%- TETHE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE4× · 2017–2020 · $34k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- HFHONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +40%
- WWWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
- RSRedwood School Rehab Center Incone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
We give back the gifts of independence, trust, and companionship by helping to place service animals with men and women injured while serving their country.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Equine assisted services
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Summit assistance dogs is a nonprofit organization that creates life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by…
To care for the physical, mental and emotional needs of children, adults, veterans and their families through the healing power of horses.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To assist war veterans in getting paired with service dogs trained to help individuals with mental or physical disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Peppermint Pig Animal Rescue. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL HOUSE SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE ↗
- Who funds WOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds FLEMING ISLAND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Help Ukraine Inc ↗
- Who funds PINNACLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STABLE STRIDES FARM ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SERENITY CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEPPERMINT PIG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR RESOURCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND STRIPES 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Spaulding Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Scripps Howard Foundation
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 Chickesaw 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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