· Private foundation
Sheerr Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MVY YOUTH | $1,250 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| THE OCONNELL HOUSE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GP | $650 |
| MORGAN PRESSEL FDN | $500 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $500 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURS | $500 |
| KLEHR CENTER FOR JEWISH | $500 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONS OF MUS | $500 |
| OAKSTONE ACADEMY | $500 |
| BETH SHALOM PRES FDN | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILMARK | $250 |
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 (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMorgan Pressel Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +176%
- NENEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +31%
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC2× · 2020–2021 · $800 · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $2k
Education Law Center - PAone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +16%- HOHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +140%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 96 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sheerr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheerr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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