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The Irmgard Cheek Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Human Services$18kArts & Culture$14kEducation$8kEnvironment$5kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO$15,090
LA COUNTY SCIENCE & ENG FAIR$6,000
CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$5,000
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY$5,000
FRIENDS OF DESERT MOUNTAINS$2,500
FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT$2,500
UCLA FOUNDATION$2,000
PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC$1,500
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM DESERT$1,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM$750
FOLDS OF HONOR$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 11%FAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13k · 3 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +253% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
1

Total granted

$13k
$108

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+253%
+57%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

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

  • TS
    THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue -45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DESERT MOUNTAINS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • LD
    LIVING DESERT THEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $108 · revenue +57%

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

04Your field

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.

1
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
Zoological Society of San Diego

San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.

Animals
4
Palm Springs Art Museum

Palm springs art museum creates transformative experiences that expand our understanding of ourselves and the world. palm springs art museum has a wide-reaching and growing permanent collection of over 12,000 objects rooted in modern and…

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Society of Natural History

Conserving nature through science and discovery.

Arts & Culture
7
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

8
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

9
Discovery Science Center of Los Angeles

We inspire and educate young minds through engaging science-based programs and exhibits to create a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.

Arts & Culture
10
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

11
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
12
Socal Symphony Society

The Culver City Symphony Orchestra strives to enlighten and inspire the diverse citizenry of Culver City and the Los Angeles area through the presentation of orchestral music concerts, to present works of American composers, and to…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Challenged Sailors San Diego Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
3/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC — $15,090 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INCFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT — $2,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERTLA COUNTY SCIENCE & ENG FAIR — $6,000 · OtherLA COUNTY SCIENCE & ENG FAIRFRIENDS OF DESERT MOUNTAINS — $5,210 · OtherFRIENDS OF DESERT MOUNTAINSCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $5,000 · OtherCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUMHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM DESERT — $1,000 · OtherHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM DESERTTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SAN DIEGO SYMP…PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC — $1,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS FRIEN…USS MIDWAY MUSEUM — $750 · Arts & CultureUSS MIDWAY MUSEUMUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $250 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,000 · Civil RightsLIVING DESERT THE — $108 · Environment
Human Services$17,590Other$17,210Arts & Culture$7,750Education$2,250Civil Rights$2,000Environment$108

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHALLENGED SAILORS SAN DIEGO INC — $15,090 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE DESERT — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM DESERT — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUSS MIDWAY MUSEUM — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE — $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Irmgard Cheek Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Irmgard Cheek Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Irmgard Cheek Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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