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The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000 at a glance

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The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$152kEnvironment$91kHealth$41kYouth Development$20kSocial Science$18kFood & Nutrition$16kInternational$14kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM$21,750
Individual grant recipient$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$10,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$5,000
CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY$5,000
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC$2,500
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE$2,500
ELLIS EARLY LEARNING$2,500
SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC$2,500
QUEST ADVENTURES INC$2,000
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC$1,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1k → 16%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 16 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
7

Total granted

$439k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+37%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +43%
  • CF
    CITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +699%
  • WF
    Water for South Sudan Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -5%
  • PINE STREET INN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • GC
    GROW CYCLING FOUNDATION CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -42%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc

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…

Environment
5
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
8
Ceres Inc

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…

Environment
9
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

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…

Environment
10
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $152,250 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUMELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $9,500 · EducationELLIS EARLY LEARNING INCIndividual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $35,000 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERBENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE: $17,500 · OtherBENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $10,500 · OtherTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC+8 more: $23,250 · Other+8 moreCITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY: $35,000 · EnvironmentCITIZENS FO…SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSPEAK FOR T…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,500 · HealthPLANNED PA…QUEST ADVENTURES INC: $14,250 · Youth DevelopmentWater for South Sudan Inc: $11,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $2,500 · Human Services
Education$161,750Other$168,250Environment$45,000Health$40,500Youth Development$14,250International$13,500Human Services$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $152,250 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $40,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR FAUQUIER COUNTY: $35,000 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetQUEST ADVENTURES INC: $14,250 over 7y, 13% of budgetWater for South Sudan Inc: $11,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSPEAK FOR THE TREES INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $5,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROW CYCLING FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAUQUIER SPCA INC: $1,750 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.

  • 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 GROW CYCLING FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx1000. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home