· Private foundation
The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM | $21,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| ELLIS EARLY LEARNING | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC | $2,500 |
| SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC | $2,500 |
| QUEST ADVENTURES INC | $2,000 |
| THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC | $1,750 |
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 (FY21–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +43%- CFCITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +699%
- WFWater for South Sudan Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -5%
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +43%- NANATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -19%
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 establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Fauquier County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 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 PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds QUEST ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Water for South Sudan Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds GROW CYCLING FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000 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.
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 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.