How much does Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 give?

Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 reported 26 grants totaling $475,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (15%), Health (14%), Environment (11%).

Who are Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Perkins School for the Blind ($155k), Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc ($137k), Sierra Club Foundation ($137k).

Does Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 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 Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, The Cabot Family Charitable Trust.

Where is Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 based?

Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 is based in MA.

Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840

Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 at a glance

· Private foundation

Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840

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.

$475k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$32k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$367kHealth$342kEnvironment$267kInternational$256kEmployment$189kPhilanthropy$168kHousing & Shelter$140kCrime & Legal$137kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $26k
$10k–50k22 grants · $449k

$16,125

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND	$32,250
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC	$32,250
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$26,870
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND	$26,870
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FD INC	$26,870
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC	$21,500
ASPCA	$21,500
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC	$21,500
FRANCISCAN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INC	$21,500
CITY OF PHOENIX PEDIATRIC HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE FUND	$21,500
NEADS	$21,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL	$21,500
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC	$16,125
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC	$16,125
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC	$16,125

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 35 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+20%

Still filing today

77%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationHealthEnvironmentEmploymentCrime & LegalOther

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

PS
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +49%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +10%
GB
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +89%

Funded once

FC
FRANCISCAN CHILDREN'S
one grant, 2022 · $20k
MG
MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
one grant, 2022 · $14k
EC
EAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +20%

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.

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

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

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment

Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International

Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health

Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment

Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International

Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education

Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science

Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camfed Usa Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

29 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. 29 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

23/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,050,898Education$433,457International$316,530Environment$245,565Crime & Legal$137,145Employment$125,117Health$110,510

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.

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.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael T Sherman Foundation #95-602840. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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.

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