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Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable 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.

$819k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$3.3MEducation$1.7MScience & Tech$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MArts & Culture$829kReligion$342kCivil Rights$302kInternational$245kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $522k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$250,000
THE NAGEN PROJECT$121,500
Individual grant recipient$100,000
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS$100,000
ISRAEL BASEBALL AMERICAS INC$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$11,000
PAP CORPS$5,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$2,000
BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$1,250
BOCA RIO FOUNDATION$1,000
GLEN OAKS PHILANTROPIC FUND$1,000
PLAY FOR PINK INC$950
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS: $1k → 9%COPLINE INC: $5k → 6%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $25k → 8%COPLINE INC: $500 → 6%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $3k → 8%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $7k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $7k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $3k → 16%OPPORTUNITY PROJECT: $2k → 16%SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 34 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
49

Total granted

$6.3M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+19%

Still filing today

79%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • PC
    PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $600k · revenue +54%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $503k · revenue +84%
  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2022 · $250k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NU
    NYU UROLOGY RESEARCH FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $375k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is Students Supporting Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NYU LANGONE: $775,000 · OtherNYU LANGONENYU UROLOGY RESEARCH FUND: $375,000 · OtherNYU UROLOGY RESEARCH FUNDTEMPLE BETH SHALOM: $310,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH SHALOMBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $236,365 · OtherBASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE+53 more: $2,053,750 · Other+53 morePINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $600,000 · EducationPINE CREST PREPARATORY S…HORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $600,000 · EducationHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DI…NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHO…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $100,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 · Education+3 more: $35,200 · EducationBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,003,550 · Community ImprovementBoca Raton Regio…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $360,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…WGBH Educational Foundation: $750,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educ…STORM KING ART CENTER: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $25,250 · Arts & CultureNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $502,908 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $65,000 · PhilanthropyMIAMI MARLINS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $32,175 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,250 · PhilanthropyTURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $198,500 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · HealthRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,060 · HealthMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $30,517 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $19,000 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13,500 · Health+4 more: $3,700 · HealthTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC: $171,500 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,750,115Education$1,985,200Community Improvement$1,363,550Arts & Culture$815,250Philanthropy$707,833Health$397,277Civil Rights$296,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $1,003,550 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $750,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $600,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSN OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS INC: $600,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $502,908 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $360,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $198,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC: $171,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIAMI MARLINS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $32,175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTH & NORMAN RALES JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $32,060 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $31,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc: $30,517 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC: $27,600 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $27,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURN 2 FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES ZOO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION FOR RESIDENTIAL CARE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPLINE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetWITNESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMATTINGLY BASEBALL CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $3,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…FjcNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Raymond James Charita…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY16× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce and Cynthia Sherman Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Opportunity Project Inc: 6% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 92 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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