· Private foundation
Alvin Sherman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $655k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR FUND INC | $750,000 |
| VINEYARD THEATER | $450,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $285,000 |
| SAGE | $200,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $100,000 |
| GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE | $100,000 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT | $55,000 |
| MCC THEATER | $50,000 |
| FOUNTAIN THEATER | $25,000 |
| ELLEN HERMANSON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CATTICUS CORP | $10,000 |
| ELEMYOUTH IN DISTRESS IN ISREAL | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of Miami3× · 2021–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +48%
Nova Southeastern University Inc2× · 2018–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +39%- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $435k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- JDJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -21%
- MTMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +53%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +55%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
Marin theatre company is the bay area's premier mid-size theater and the leading professional theater in the north bay. mtc produces a six-show season of provocative plays by passionate playwrights from the 20th century and today in an…
The latino theater company operates the los angeles theatre center, whose mission is to provide a world class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; a…
The shakespeare theatre company creates, preserves and promotes classic theatre-ambitious, enduring plays with universal themes-for all audiences. through the creation of provocative, imaginative, and accessible theatre, stc ignites a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
See schedule o for organization's mission statementmission statement: the huntington theatre company engages, inspires, entertains and challenges audiences with theatrical productions that range from the classics to new works; we train and…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…
Miami new drama is a nonprofit professional theater company based in miami beach, florida, and is committed to artistic excellence and groundbreaking work with a vision of theater as a powerful form of social engagement. in residence at…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Caresequity Fights Aids Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR FUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Central College ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CATTICUS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Our Fund Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alvin Sherman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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