Georgia · Nonprofit
CHEROKEE BY CHOICE
CHEROKEE BY CHOICE (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,500 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($53,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $131k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Cherokee by Choice does
Mission
To acquire and administer funds and property which, after the payment of necessary expenses, shall be devoted to charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes within meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the code, as may be determined from time to time by the board of directors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To acquire and administer funds and property which, after the payment of necessary expenses, shall be devoted to charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes within meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the code, as may be determined from time to time by the board of directors.
$1,073,513 spent95% of program spendingTo make distributions to organzations that qualify as tax exempt organizations under sections 501(a) and 501(c)(3) of the code.
To make distributions to individuals for charitable purposes within the definition of section 501(c)(3) of the code.
To receive and accept property, whether real, personal, or mixed, by way of gift, bequest or devise, from any person, firm, or corporation, to be held, administered and disposed of in accordance with and pursuant to the governing instuments of the corporation, as the same shall be amended from time to time.
$56,028 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,129,541.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.5M (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
96% of CHEROKEE BY CHOICE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Mark Goddard
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $655k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wellstar Health System Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CHEROKEE BY CHOICE raised.
From the IRS filings of CHEROKEE BY CHOICE’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
CHEROKEE BY CHOICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 CHEROKEE BY CHOICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
CHEROKEE BY CHOICE draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k 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.
Against its field
CHEROKEE BY CHOICE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CHEROKEE BY CHOICE
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% 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 CHEROKEE BY CHOICE: 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 CHEROKEE BY CHOICE?
- CHEROKEE BY CHOICE (Georgia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,500 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($53,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHEROKEE BY CHOICE have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $130,500 in grants to CHEROKEE BY CHOICE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHEROKEE BY CHOICE?
- TRUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $53,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHEROKEE BY CHOICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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