How much does Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc give?

Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc reported 44 grants totaling $119,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (47%), Health (15%), Arts & Culture (10%).

Who are Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jacob Burns Film Center Inc ($113k), Canine Companions for Independence Inc ($89k), Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc ($89k).

Does Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc, The Summerlee Foundation, Bruce G Geary Foundation.

Where is Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc based?

Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc is based in NY.

Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc

Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$119k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$563kHealth$175kArts & Culture$122kPhilanthropy$104kFood & Nutrition$65kHousing & Shelter$52kReligion$29kEducation$23kOther$0

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $105k
$10k–50k1 grant · $15k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER	$15,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE	$7,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL HOSPITAL	$7,000
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION	$7,000
CLARK GILLES FOUNDATION	$6,500
LITTLE SHELTER	$5,000
IDEFINE INC	$5,000
OLLIE'S ANGELS ANIMAL RESCUE	$5,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE	$5,000
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC	$5,000
ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER	$3,500
SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL HOSPITAL	$3,000
ST ANTHONY'S HIGH SCHOOL	$2,925
VISITING NURSE SERVICE INC	$2,750
SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST	$2,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.1M · 53 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+17%

Still filing today

60%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

JB
JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +15%
CC
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +76%
GD
GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +52%

Funded once

BF
BARKLEY FUND
one grant, 2019 · $10k
TR
THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +127%
HA
HOOVED ANIMAL RESCUE & PROTECTION SOCIETY
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -25%

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.

04Its field

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.

Raskels Rescue

Animals

Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals

Pet Rescue Miami Inc

Animals

Pats Pets Corporation

Animal rescue

Animals

The Adoptable Dog

Animals

St Clouds Rescue

Animals

Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Baby Gunns Animal Rescue

Animals

Grace Farm Animal Rescue and Sanctu

Animals

The Animal Rescue League

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless; the most unlike its peers is Clark Gillies Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 85 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/52

Grantees still filing

37/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$442,925Animals$303,500Human Services$237,500Arts & Culture$178,935Health$15,000Youth Development$10,000Education$5,000

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.

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.

Leslie L Alexander Foundation IncFL20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · The Summerlee Foundation · Bruce G Geary Foundation · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · Winley Foundation · Dorothy Zimmerman Charitable Trust · Dj and T Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Deupree Family Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · AbbVie Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mrs Cheever Porter Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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