Virginia · Private foundation
The Chericoke Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $70k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $996k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Chericoke Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 27 | $70k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $80k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $60k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $84k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $83k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $83k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $79k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation | $128,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Charlotte Latin Schools | $112,040 | 7 | 0% |
| St Christopher's School Foundation | $50,700 | 9 | 0% |
| Focused Ultrasound Foundation | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Stratford Hall | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Catherine's School Foundation | $37,158 | 9 | 0% |
| Capital Trees | $17,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Virginia Institute of Marine Science Fdn | $13,821 | 8 | 0% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $13,500 | 9 | n/a |
| The Richmond Ballet | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Chericoke 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Massey Family Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Good Shepherd Fund-Ima-Main · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Ridgeway Foundation · The Mraz Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About The Chericoke Foundation
- How much does The Chericoke Foundation give?
- The Chericoke Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $69,521 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Chericoke Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (16%), Religion (11%).
- Who are The Chericoke Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Stephen's and St Agnes School Foundation ($128k), Charlotte Latin Schools ($112k), St Christopher's School Foundation ($51k).
- Does The Chericoke Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Chericoke Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Chericoke Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Massey Family Foundation, Richard S Reynolds Foundation.
- Where is The Chericoke Foundation based?
- The Chericoke Foundation is based in VA.
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