Virginia · Private foundation
Share the Cheer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $304k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Share the Cheer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $10k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $12k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $12k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $22k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $12k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| ourBRIDGE Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Listening | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Winchester Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Charlotte Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vector Space | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dr Terry Sinclair Health Clinic Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| ourBRIDGE Inc | $12,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Listening | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Winchester Rescue Mission | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Charlotte Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vector Space | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Dr Terry Sinclair Health Clinic Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lynchburg City Schools Education Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dementiamatters | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Capon Valley Neighbor to Neighbor Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Share the Cheer Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Share the Cheer Foundation
- How much does Share the Cheer Foundation give?
- Share the Cheer Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Share the Cheer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Arts & Culture (14%), Religion (13%).
- Who are Share the Cheer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: ourBRIDGE Inc ($12k), The Listening ($10k), Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ($6k).
- Does Share the Cheer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Share the Cheer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Share the Cheer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc, Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation, The Bank of Clarke County Foundation.
- Where is Share the Cheer Foundation based?
- Share the Cheer Foundation is based in VA.
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