· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRIEND OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| UBORA | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR GEORGIA | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- HHHELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -6%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HOMESTRETCH INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POOR ↗
- 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 SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HOSPICE & HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Wesley Foundation of the University of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lisa and Bob Cheeley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisa and Bob Cheeley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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