Maine · Nonprofit
CHEERFUL INC
CHEERFUL INC (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,876 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($35,495). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $344k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Cheerful Inc does
Mission
The Corporation is a non-profit organization organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, or the corresponding provisions of any subsequent Federal tax law. The purposes for which this Corporation is organized include: To receive and grant funds to public charities and equivalent projects and organizations.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
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$2,500 spent$2,500 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $239,670.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $35k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 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
CHEERFUL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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
100% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 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
CHEERFUL INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like CHEERFUL INC
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHEERFUL 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHEERFUL INC?
- CHEERFUL INC (Maine) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,876 to it, the largest being THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ($35,495). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEERFUL INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $40,876 in grants to CHEERFUL INC.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEERFUL INC?
- THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,495 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEERFUL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2022–2022), and the filings of 2 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