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Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inc

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

International$25kEducation$14kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHealth$4kRecreation & Sports$3kFood & Nutrition$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$256k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
World Central kitchen$6,000
Native american veterans assistance$2,000
university of nebraska Eoundation$1,000
rose brooks$1,000
kansas city pbs$75
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 41%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Soaring eagle: $250 → 9%Native American Veterans Associatio: $2k → 42%Native american veterans assistance: $2k → 42%Native american veterans assistance: $1k → 42%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 17% of Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inc’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, 18% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 4% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$43k · 6 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
22

Total granted

$43k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +36%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +23%
  • RB
    ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • UO
    university of nebraska EWB
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +19%
  • PP
    pioneer park nature center
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

7
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

9
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
10
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

11
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
12
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $6,500 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCuniversity of nebraska EWB — $5,000 · Otheruniversity of nebraska EWBpioneer park nature center — $2,500 · Otherpioneer park nature centerwashington state university — $2,000 · Otherwashington state universityFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $2,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,500 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAIndividual grant recipient — $1,000 · Otheruniversity of nebraska Eoundation — $1,000 · Otheruniversity of nebrarska foundation — $1,000 · Otherbreast cancder research insttute — $1,000 · Otherstand for the troops — $1,000 · Other+8 more — $3,410 · Other+8 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INCWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationWASHINGTON …UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $3,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY …NATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE — $5,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AM…SOARING EAGLE — $950 · Human ServicesSOARING E…Feeding America — $2,000 · Food & NutritionSTAND IN THE LIGHT MEMORY CHOIR INC — $600 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $75 · Arts & CultureJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $300 · AnimalsEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC — $300 · Animals
Other$27,910International$27,500Education$7,500Human Services$5,950Food & Nutrition$2,000Arts & Culture$675Animals$600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN VETERANS ASSISTANCE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOARING EAGLE — $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAU CLAIRE COMMUNITY HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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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 Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Chili-N-Cherries Charity Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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