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The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx4003 at a glance

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The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx4003

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$84kYouth Development$55kHuman Services$47kFood & Nutrition$18kArts & Culture$8kEducation$5kReligion$3kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$630k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEADFAST FAMILY FARM INC$6,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWS FOR JESUS: $1k → 10%REINS FOR LIFE INC: $5k → 20%SALVATION ARMY: $28k → 14%NORTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $5k → 14%SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $32k → 16%LOUISIANA INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED: $3k → 19%REINS FOR LIFE INC: $5k → 20%OPEN ARMS CLINIC: $25k → 14%SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $10k → 16%REINS FOR LIFE INC: $3k → 20%OPEN ARMS CLINIC: $25k → 14%NEW BEGINNINGS: $2k → 16%OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC: $21k → 14%THE HOPE CENTER OF TOCCOA INC: $10k → 14%EVAN OGELSBY FOUNDATION: $7k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOCCOA -: $5k → 14%CAMP FIRE GEORGIA: $5k → 14%N STREETORTHEAST GEORGIA CASA: $3k → 14%POWERHOUSE FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOCCOA -: $3k → 14%NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS: $2k → 14%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 14%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF STEPHENS CO INC: $2k → 14%STEPHENS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2k → 14%STEADFAST FAMILY FARM INC: $7k → 14%STEADFAST FAMILY FARM INC: $6k → 14%STEADFAST FAMILY FARM INC: $3k → 14%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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$179k · 6 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$179k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
-6%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • OA
    OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $71k · revenue +262%
  • SH
    SHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $42k · revenue -37%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $30k

Funded once

  • TH
    THE HOPE CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
  • EO
    EVAN OGELSBY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE GEORGIA
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -22%
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
Hope House of North Georgia Inc

Emergency foster care for abused and neglected children in pickens, dawson, and surrounding counties.

Human Services
2
Hope Haven of Northeast Georgiainc

Developmentally disabled consumer facility

Education
3
Heart of Georgia Dd Ministries Inc

Provide homes for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
4
Shepherd's Haven Ministries Inc

To provide housing and a day program for men and women with special needs. these facilities offer activities in a christian setting.

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5
In His Steps Christian Recovery Home

Social model recovery homes for men and women with life controlling issues including substance abuse. residents attend 3 meeting per day and church on sundays. celebrate recovery classes, parenting and anger management classes. program is…

Religion
6
Stephens Place

Operation of a residential halfway house for a maximum of (5) adult males recently released from prison. supervise their transitional living back into society.

Crime & Legal
7
Shalom House Ministries Inc

Shalom House Ministries Inc operates a treatment center for women struggling with drug and alcohol addition. It also offers transitional dwelling for women who need a safe place after treatment.

Health
8
Faith Home Inc

Faith home provides faith-based alcohol and drug addiction programs in greenwood, spartanburg, and abbeville. we are the largest christian recovery program in the southeast with a 135 resident bed capacity.

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9
Next Step Ministries Inc

Next Step Ministries, Inc. serves families in Cherokee, Cobb and Fulton counties of Georgia by providing therapeutic day programs for individuals with special needs in a Christian environment.

Human Services
10
Shepherd's Heart Inc

Shepherd's heart is a biblically centered, clinically informed counseling ministry that offers comfort, hope, and healing to those struggling with spiritual, relational, emotional, or mental health issues.

Health
11
Shepherds Staff Ministries Inc

Meeting the physical needs of local needy families by providing emergency food and shelter. Assistance is also provided for families unable to pay for utilities and medical services.

—
12
Stephens County Humane Society

Humane treatment of animals through adoption, care, and education

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hope Center; the most unlike its peers is Camp Fire Georgia. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $30,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYREINS FOR LIFE INC: $12,500 · OtherREINS FOR LIFE INCTHE HOPE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherTHE HOPE CENTERBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOCCOA -: $7,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOCCOA -EVAN OGELSBY FOUNDATION: $6,500 · OtherEVAN OGELSBY FOUNDATIONCAMP FIRE GEORGIA: $5,000 · OtherCAMP FIRE GEORGIANORTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherNORTH GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGEN STREETORTHEAST GEORGIA CASA: $3,000 · Other+4 more: $6,500 · Other+4 moreOPEN ARMS CLINIC INC: $71,000 · HealthOPEN ARMS CLINIC INCSHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $42,400 · Youth DevelopmentSHEPHERDS HILL ACADEM…Steadfast Family Farm Inc: $15,500 · ReligionLOUISIANA INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 · EmploymentFAITH INC: $2,500 · Crime & LegalPAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$86,000Health$71,000Youth Development$42,400Religion$15,500Employment$2,500Crime & Legal$2,500Human Services$2,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPEN ARMS CLINIC INC: $71,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetSHEPHERDS HILL ACADEMY INC: $42,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSteadfast Family Farm Inc: $15,500 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCAMP FIRE GEORGIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISIANA INDUSTRIES FOR THE DISABLED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAUL ANDERSON YOUTH HOME INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHENS CO HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Telford Family Founda…Heaton McBrayer Found…Thomas T and Bernice …Peach State Fcu Cares…Georgia Power Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Telford Family Foundation Inc Mary T PiggottNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Telford Family Foundation Inc Mary T Piggott · Heaton McBrayer Foundation Inc · Thomas T and Bernice F Irvin Foundation Inc · Peach State Fcu Cares Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx4003 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cheek Family Foundation Xxxxx4003. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 19 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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