· Private foundation
Lisa and Bob Cheeley Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERIMETER CHURCH | $158,000 |
| METRO ATLANTA SEMINARY | $10,000 |
| UBORA | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR GEORGIA | $5,000 |
| FRIEND OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| TRINITY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| KEYSTONE VILLAGE | $2,350 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| WARRINGTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $600 |
| STREETWISE GEORGIA | $500 |
| LAKE BURTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2023 · $123k · revenue +112%
- MAMetro Atlanta Seminary Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +49%
- UIUBORATZ INC4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ACAFLAC CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CAClassic Auto Rides Incone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
- ADABBIE DELOACH SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The university statement of values consists of christian heritage, baptist heritage, academic excellence, liberal arts, teamwork, a student-centered focus, community engagement and diversity.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
Welch college is a christian higher education institution that educates leaders to serve christ, his church, and his world through biblical thought and life
Serving the chrisitan community in the strengthening of local churches, promoting responsible christian character and maturity through educational programs, and preparing graduates for vocational and volunteer church-related service.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
The mission of criswell college is to provide ministerial and professional higher education for men and women preparing to serve as christian leaders throughout society, while maintaining an institutional commitment to biblical inerrancy.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Classic Auto Rides 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 33 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 19% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Metro Atlanta Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds UBORATZ INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Desire Street Ministries ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Classic Auto Rides Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HOMESTRETCH INC ↗
- Who funds PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LANIER INC ↗
- Who funds BUFORD CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH GWINNETT COOPERATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy of Truth Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds The Wesley Foundation of the University of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE 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 Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · J Bulow Campbell Foundation · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Stinchcomb Family Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · McKesson 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 Lisa and Bob Cheeley Foundation 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.
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.