· Private foundation
Evelyn & Herbert Chernis Foundation Inc Co
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Evelyn & Herbert Chernis Foundation Inc Co’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Evelyn & Herbert Chernis Foundation Inc Co named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $167k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k7 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWTON SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL | $90,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF THE DESERT | $30,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| Desert Film Society | $10,000 |
| MCCALLUM THEATER | $7,500 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN | $5,000 |
| LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE DESERT | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FDN | $5,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLING | $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 (FY20–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
University of Arizona Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +54%- LSLITERARY SOCIETY OF THE DESERT4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue ×344
- HFHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- COCollege of the Desert Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +180%
- PSPalm Springs Cultural Centergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +94%
- CVCOACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +67%
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.
To administer and allocate charitable funds to international, national and local jewish organizations.
Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.
To enrich and preserve the quality of life for residents by raising funds and garnering support to purchase, develop, enhance, preserve, promote, and expand the coachella valley's recreational activities, programs, parks, properties, and…
Serving and supporting a vibrant, enduring jewish community.
Donate to charitable organizations
The jewish federation of greater santa barbara is dedicated to building a vibrant and inclusive local jewish community, to enhancing the well being of jews in santa barbara, israel, and throughout the world, and to strengthening the…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The purpose of this corporation is to support desert community foundation, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation; california community foundation, a california nonprofit public benefit corporation; and orange county community…
To fund-raise for supplemental funding for rancho mirage library & observatory programs and collections.
The palomar college foundation, with the support of the community, secures supplemental funding, other resources, and provides program support for the benefit of palomar community college and its students.
Jewish free loan provides interest free loans to arizona's jewish community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM SPRINGS AND DESERT AREA ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE DESERT ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds RANCHO MIRAGE WRITERS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of the Desert Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Springs Cultural Center ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds COACHELLA VALLEY REPERTORY ↗
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: Inland Empire Community Foundation · Victor Family Foundation co Jonathan Victor · The Galen Family Foundation · The Grace Helen Spearman Foundation · Milwaukee Jewish Federation Inc · The Harriet K and Howard N Bernstein Charitable Foundation · The Hyman and Mintz Family Foundation · The Auen Foundation · The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Evelyn & Herbert Chernis Foundation Inc Co 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.
- Alliance for Children Inc — 1% 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.