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Share the Cheer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHT FUTURES | $3,000 |
| SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC | $2,000 |
| HARDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DEMENTIA MATTERS | $1,000 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| CACAPON LOST RIVER LAND TRUST | $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 (FY21–21, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
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.
Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.
Feeding Charlotte rescues surplus, freshly prepared meals to reduce food waste and feed the hungry. We believe no food should be wasted while people go hungry in our community. To make this possible, we pickup unused, excess freshly…
The Henry County Food Pantry Provides Nutritious Food and Essential Support to Families in need.
Provision of food for the needy
Northern virginia food rescue is responding to the disconnect between wasting 40% of our food while 1 in 6 go hungry. northern virginia food rescue aims to address the disconnect in distribution-in supply and access-by rescuing food about…
Our mission is to ensure the availability, access, and affordability of locally produced food by connecting local farmers and all members of the community through programs, awareness, and advocacy.
To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To create a thriving, equitable food system by working with local farms to provide crucial access to fresh produce to food insecure people in Cleveland County.
Our mission is to increase access to fresh, local food for all while supporting the viability of marginalized farmers to create a more equitable food system.
To provide hope in the communities we serve including essex, lancaster, northumberland, middlesex, richmond and wesmoreland counties including colonial beach, through the right food and education.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dementiamatters. 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 23 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 ourBRIDGE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LISTENING ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VECTOR SPACE ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIAMATTERS ↗
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: United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Share the Cheer 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 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.