California · Nonprofit
Cheer for Children Inc
Cheer for Children Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being PRESTON B & MAURINE M HOTCHKIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundationshared funders
- Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007portfolio match
- The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of Cheer for Children Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Cheer for Children Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Cheer for Children Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Elizabeth Bixby Janeway Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Mary Gk Fox Foundation 15-5006007portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jason T Dickerson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wimberg Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steve and Kate Smith Community Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Racing for Charity Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Loh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hollerbachs Has Heartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Long Family Foundation (Formerly Reid Long Scholarship Fund)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mars Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles E & Carol J Miller Familyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Reeves Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Cheer for Children Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cheer for Children Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Cheer for Children Inc?
- Cheer for Children Inc (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,000 to it, the largest being PRESTON B & MAURINE M HOTCHKIS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cheer for Children Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $4,000 in grants to Cheer for Children Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Cheer for Children Inc?
- PRESTON B & MAURINE M HOTCHKIS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cheer for Children Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 2funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing