· Private foundation
Howard and Stephanie Sherwood Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $207k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTI DEMAMATION LEAGUE | $41,297 |
| JEWISH BIG BROTHERSSISTERS | $40,500 |
| MISCELLANEOUS CHARITIES | $39,093 |
| SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FNDTN | $25,000 |
| ONE VOICE | $25,000 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOME | $20,690 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $15,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- APA PLACE CALLED HOME7× · 2017–2025 · $258k · revenue +4%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE7× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +78%
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum4× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WRWISE READERS TO LEADERSone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- UHUnited Hatzalah of Israelone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TETHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +254%
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.
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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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds THE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Howard and Stephanie Sherwood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard and Stephanie Sherwood Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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