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Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,750
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$907k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationOther
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 arriving6$40k0%
FY20247$43k14%
FY20238$42k13%
FY20228$46k25%
FY20216$31k0%
FY20209$36k22%
FY20197$41k14%
FY20188$36k13%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$352kRecreation & Sports$2k

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
William Penn University$33,06770%
Luther College$14,83240%
Central College$13,13040%
Indian Hills Community College$9,40043%
Buena Vista University$6,08040%
Simpson College$6,00020%
Allen College$4,00010%
Wartburg College$1,60010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($266k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Penn University: $33,067 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLuther College: $14,832 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral College: $13,130 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIndian Hills Community College: $9,400 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBuena Vista University: $6,080 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSimpson College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAllen College: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWartburg College: $1,600 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 8.

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.

Fahrney Education Fdtn TrustWI15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · 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 Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw

How much does Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw give?
Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw reported 6 grants totaling $40,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%).
Who are Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William Penn University ($33k), Luther College ($15k), Central College ($13k).
Does Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust, Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr, Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc.
Where is Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw based?
Ch& Helen Sheridan Tuw is based in WI.

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 19 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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