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Owen Cheatham Foundation
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 $10k29 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REID MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,000 |
| JACKSON LABORATORY ADVANCEMENT OFFICE | $35,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $20,000 |
| NICKLAUS CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $18,000 |
| BOCA RATON CHAMPION GOLF CHARITY | $18,000 |
| NEW CONCORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| THE BRAKHAGE CENTER OF MEDIA ARTS | $15,000 |
| HORIZONS | $15,000 |
| FIRST TEE GOLD COAST | $13,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,100 |
| COLLEGE PREP PARTNERS PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
| MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $120k · revenue +67%
- BRBOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $76k · revenue ×73
- AJAmerican Junior Golf Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SFSan Francisco Education Fundone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $13k
- THTHE HALE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +149%
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 promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the south florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…
The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
Tallahassee memorial healthcare foundation, inc. is a not-for-profit irc section 501(c)(3) organization whose purpose is to develop philanthropic support for its parent, tallahassee memorial healthcare, inc. ("tmh"), and to generate a high…
JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…
To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 121 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 SAN FRANCISCO FRIENDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MCDAVID GROUP CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN JAZZ PRESENTERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS UNLIMITED OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds DRIVEN TO CURE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNTS MID SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Jazz Bakery Performance Space ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION 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: Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Haseley Family Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · Taylor Foundation · Quantum Foundation Inc · Rudnick Foundation · Palm Beach Country Club Foundation Inc · Ckenneth & Laura Baxter Foundationinc · Christian Olsen Private Foundation · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation
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 Owen Cheatham Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% 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.
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