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S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$535k
Largest
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$545kArts & Culture$390kHealth$363kYouth Development$140kRecreation & Sports$71kCrime & Legal$43kInternational$37kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$5kOther$996k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $340k
  • $250k+2 grants · $785k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$535,000
NY PRESBYTERIAN FUND$250,000
WNET$150,000
WIOX 913 COMMUNITY RADIO$140,000
GLASSROOTS INC$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$20,000
THE OPEN EYE THEATER$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER$10,000
COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION$10,000
LITTLE KIDS ROCK$10,000
HATIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE$10,000
CARING KIND$10,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$7,000
MEALS OF SARASOTA INC$5,000
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $545k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HATIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $535k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
AL
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 27% of S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.0% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 26 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
3

Total granted

$1.8M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+34%

Still filing today

58%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • GLASSROOTS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +113%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +12%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $100k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +190%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +34%
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -21%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

2
Free Press Action Fund

Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…

Civil Rights
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
5
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
6
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
9
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NY PRESBYTERIAN FUND — $250,000 · OtherNY PRESBYTERIAN FUNDWIOX 913 COMMUNITY RADIO — $188,000 · OtherWIOX 913 COMMUNITY RADIOTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY INC — $90,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD CITY INCBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER — $77,000 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERCOMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION — $67,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient — $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE OPEN EYE THEATER — $55,000 · OtherMILWAUKEE B'NAI B'RITH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION-COVENANT HOUSE — $39,000 · OtherMEALS OF SARASOTA INC — $38,000 · OtherNY HOLOCAUST MUSEUM — $36,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $37,000 · Other+5 more — $75,500 · Other+5 moreTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $535,000 · Human ServicesTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY FO…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesWNET — $310,000 · Arts & CultureWNETMUSIC WILL INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WILL INCFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $138,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $99,999 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBY…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $72,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DIS…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $52,000 · HealthDana-Farber Can…+1 more — $1,000 · HealthGLASSROOTS INC — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH AIR FUND — $36,000 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $27,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$1,072,500Human Services$545,000Arts & Culture$390,000Health$362,999Youth Development$140,000Recreation & Sports$71,000Crime & Legal$42,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWNET — $310,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLASSROOTS INC — $140,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $138,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $99,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC — $72,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC WILL INC — $50,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE B'NAI B'RITH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION-COVENANT HOUSE — $39,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $37,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $36,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Eye Theatre — $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WNET
  • Who funds GLASSROOTS INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds MUSIC WILL INC
  • Who funds MILWAUKEE B'NAI B'RITH NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATION-COVENANT HOUSE
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
  • Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
  • Who funds FLORIDA WEST COAST PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds Open Eye Theatre
  • Who funds HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Glassroots Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr Foundation?

Find your warmest path to S Irving & Anne Nevard Sherr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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