Minnesota · Nonprofit
CHEERFUL GIVERS
CHEERFUL GIVERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,397 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2017
- $295k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Cheerful Givers does
Mission
Provide toy filled birthday gift bags to under privileged youth
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.
Program
Approximately 19,000 bags were assembled and distributed to children living in poverty. Approx 650 volunteers assisted with the assembly and distribution to shelters and food shelves.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $11k → $1k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHEERFUL GIVERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 funders by total. 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
CHEERFUL GIVERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
49% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHEERFUL GIVERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 95% · 2019 100% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
0% of CHEERFUL GIVERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2021, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CHEERFUL GIVERS draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Against its field
CHEERFUL GIVERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,286 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,286 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017
Organizations like CHEERFUL GIVERS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEERFUL GIVERS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHEERFUL GIVERS?
- CHEERFUL GIVERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,397 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($7,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEERFUL GIVERS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $15,397 in grants to CHEERFUL GIVERS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEERFUL GIVERS?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEERFUL GIVERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 9 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing