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Share the Cheer Foundation at a glance

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Share the Cheer Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$14kArts & Culture$11kReligion$10kYouth Development$8kFood & Nutrition$7kHousing & Shelter$6kAnimals$6kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$304k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHT FUTURES$3,000
SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC$2,000
HARDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
DEMENTIA MATTERS$1,000
CACAPON LOST RIVER LAND TRUST$1,000
ADULT CARE CENTER$1,000
BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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 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.

1
Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia

Leading the effort to eliminate hunger in our community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Feeding Charlotte Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Henry County Food Pantry Inc

The Henry County Food Pantry Provides Nutritious Food and Essential Support to Families in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
Lynchburg Daily Bread Inc

Provision of food for the needy

Food & Nutrition
5
Northern Virginia Food Rescue

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…

Food & Nutrition
6
Virginia Community Food Connections

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
Dickenson County Food Bank

To provide food to the needy residents of Dickenson County Virginia

Food & Nutrition
8
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

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9
Broad River Community Market

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.

Food & Nutrition
10
Farmer Foodshare Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
Healthy Harvest Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Fauquier Community Food Bank & Thrift Store

To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shenandoah Valley Discovery Museum Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEQUON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherOPEQUON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHYOUNG WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ACADEMY: $5,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ACADEMYBRIGHT FUTURES: $3,000 · OtherBRIGHT FUTURESLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · OtherLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDA…BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 · OtherCOMPASSIONATE CARE PROGRAM: $1,000 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS (OF WINCHESTER): $1,000 · OtherADULT CARE CENTER: $1,000 · OtherHARDY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherCACAPON LOST RIVER LAND TRUST: $1,000 · OtherCCAP OF WINCHESTER: $1,000 · OtherI'M JUST ME MOVEMENT - AGENTS FOR CHANGE CAMPAIGN: $1,000 · Other+1 more: $250 · OtherTHE LISTENING: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LISTENINGVECTOR SPACE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureVECTOR SPACESHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISC…ourBRIDGE Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE IncSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $6,000 · Food & NutritionWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $6,000 · AnimalsDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $3,000 · HealthDEMENTIAMATTERS: $1,000 · HealthCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$28,250Arts & Culture$16,000Human Services$12,000Food & Nutrition$6,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Animals$6,000Health$4,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetourBRIDGE Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER RESCUE MISSION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVECTOR SPACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLYNCHBURG CITY SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCamp Kum-Ba-Yah Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHENANDOAH VALLEY DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

United Way of Norther…Greater Lynchburg Com…The Bank of Clarke Co…American Woodmark Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley IncVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Share the Cheer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Share the Cheer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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