The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it gives only to organizations it has already chosen and does not accept unsolicited requests. An introduction is usually the only route.
No public data foundThe return states a posture but gives no instructions.
Application policy: Funds preselected organizations only, as stated on the FY2019 return.
What its returns show
Stated the same way on all 4 Form 990-PF returns on record (FY2016 to FY2019).
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Financials
Grants paid
$0
FY2025 · grants and similar amounts paid
Total assets
$1.7M
FY2025 · end of year
Revenue
$1.7M
FY2025
Expenses
$1.9M
FY2025
Grants paid by year
Total assets by year
Where the money went · FY2025
Program services100%
Management and general0%
Fundraising0%
Form 990 splits expenses into program services, management and fundraising. The split is self-reported, and a grantmaker, a research institute and a direct-service nonprofit book the same work differently. A line the return does not carry reads "not available"; it is never counted as zero.
Year
Form
Revenue
Expenses
Grants paid
Assets
Net assets
FY2025
990
$1,695,363
$1,932,046
$0
$1,701,317
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
Grants paid
No grant rows from public filings are on record for this funder. Grant lists come from Form 990-PF and from Schedule I of Form 990; a return the IRS has not yet published, or one with no grant list, has no rows here.
Officers and directors
Name
Title
Hours / week
Compensation
Shonzette F Cheeks
PRESIDENT
40.00
$237,087
Stacy Jackson
SECRETARYTRESURER
20.00
$0
Cedric Cheeks
VICE PRESIDENT
20.00
$0
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
$1,163,522
FY2024
990
$2,030,459
$1,910,565
$0
$1,953,844
$1,400,850
FY2023amended
990
$2,047,908
$1,603,463
$0
$1,883,711
$1,298,792
FY2019
990-PF
$1,224,297
$1,201,349
$0
$203,192
$124,719
FY2018
990-PF
$1,170,747
$1,114,768
$0
$187,458
$99,657
FY2017
990-PF
$769,958
$773,197
$0
$106,919
$50,737
FY2016
990-PF
$657,072
$662,707
$0
$113,226
$54,077
Form 990 · FY2024 · period ending Dec 31, 2024IRS bulk XML
IRS 990 e-file·FY2024·file fingerprint 159948d8·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202531619349300733
Form 990 · FY2023 · period ending Dec 31, 2023 · amendedIRS bulk XML
IRS 990 e-file·FY2023·file fingerprint 40ed256f·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202443199349317059
Form 990-PF · FY2019 · period ending Dec 31, 2019
IRS 990 e-file·FY2019·file fingerprint 15803c35·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 202013159349101826
Form 990-PF · FY2018 · period ending Dec 31, 2018
IRS 990 e-file·FY2018·file fingerprint 3e3f7186·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 201900979349100105
Form 990-PF · FY2017 · period ending Dec 31, 2017
IRS 990 e-file·FY2017·file fingerprint 657b7705·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 201801059349100005
Form 990-PF · FY2016 · period ending Dec 31, 2016
IRS 990 e-file·FY2016·file fingerprint 18747869·U.S. Government public domain·View filing
Filing id 201741049349100649
IRS filings are the source for every fact on this page. Nothing a model writes is ever a source; it can only point at a row here.