New York · Private foundation
Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund
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.
- $94k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,129
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $247k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $76k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $88k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $69k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $63k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $82k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $85k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $70k | 72% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $101k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Near North Montessori School | $72,629 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $70,210 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $28,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mishkan Chicago | $24,688 | 5 | n/a |
| The Children's Aid Society | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $21,533 | 4 | 0% |
| The Possibility Project Inc | $20,105 | 5 | 1% |
| Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc | $15,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Destiny Arts Center | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 124 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Circle of Service Foundation · David B Kriser Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Riggio Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women
How this is measured
About Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund
- How much does Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund give?
- Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund reported 19 grants totaling $93,862 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (18%), Education (16%), International (10%).
- Who are Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Near North Montessori School ($73k), Anti-Defamation League ($70k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($30k).
- Does Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund 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 Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund based?
- Saul & Devorah Sherman Fund is based in NY.
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