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Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
21%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$17,165
Organizations funded a year
14 to 26
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$413k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$25k36%
FY202414$23k21%
FY202316$26k0%
FY202215$28k13%
FY202119$60k11%
FY202017$55k12%
FY201926$52k23%
FY201824$52k25%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$90kPhilanthropy$85kHuman Services$74kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$30kEducation$29kHealth$18kMembership Benefit$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank for New York City$26,00070%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$20,8299n/a
Skidmore College$20,00020%
Congregation Emanuel$16,1905n/a
Museum of Modern Art$10,18590%
Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc$7,50010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$6,00080%
Hearing Health Foundation$3,85080%
Temple Emanu-El$3,6001n/a
Barnard College$3,00070%
Show all 33 grantees
All grantees of Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food Bank for New York City$26,00070%
Park Avenue Synagogue Inc$20,8299n/a
Skidmore College$20,00020%
Congregation Emanuel$16,1905n/a
Museum of Modern Art$10,18590%
Hebrew Free Loan Society Inc$7,50010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$6,00080%
Hearing Health Foundation$3,85080%
Temple Emanu-El$3,6001n/a
Barnard College$3,00070%
Masters School$3,00020%
American Museum of Natural History$2,72530%
The Actors' Fund of America$2,50010%
Dorot Inc$2,20060%
City Harvest Inc$2,15050%
Interfaith Center of New York Inc$2,00010%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$2,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc$2,00010%
Whitney Museum of American Art$1,80060%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$1,75050%
The Jewish Museum$1,20030%
Sarah Lawrence College$1,15060%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$1,10030%
The Brearley School$80040%
Child Mind Institute Inc$50020%
The Milton H Erickson Foundation Inc$50010%
The Mended Hearts Inc$40020%
The Doe Fund Inc$37510%
Springs Food Pantry Inc$25010%
Footsteps Inc$25010%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$25010%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$20010%
Save Ellis Island Inc$20010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood Bank for New York City: $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSkidmore College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,185 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Free Loan Society Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $6,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHearing Health Foundation: $3,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBarnard College: $3,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMasters School: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $2,725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $2,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Center of New York Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Brigid Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Lawrence College: $1,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brearley School: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChild Mind Institute Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Milton H Erickson Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mended Hearts Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSprings Food Pantry Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFootsteps Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave Ellis Island Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc

How much does Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc give?
Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $25,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (25%), Philanthropy (23%), Human Services (20%).
Who are Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Bank for New York City ($26k), Park Avenue Synagogue Inc ($21k), Skidmore College ($20k).
Does Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc based?
Abraham I & Jean Sherr Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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