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Sheridan Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sheridan Foundation Inc

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.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Education$167kRecreation & Sports$161kHealth$9kYouth Development$4kEnvironment$887Science & Tech$500Human Services$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $93k
$1,750
Median grant
6
States reached
$994k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE 1854 FOUNDATION$40,000
CONGAREE FOUNDATION$28,000
CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE$15,000
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION$10,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,000
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE$1,758
EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC$1,750
THE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC$1,038
CURE AP-4 INC$1,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000
GOOD GRIEF INC$500
LEVEEN-ROACH SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF SECESSION GOLF CLUB$500
COLONIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, 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.

area typical 9%THE 1854 FOUNDATION: $40k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
TN
SC
DC
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 13 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
24

Total granted

$252k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+88%

Still filing today

62%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CF
    Congaree Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $103k · revenue +4%
  • FM
    FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +13%
  • FM
    FRANKLIN & MARSHALL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWNgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • TM
    THE MALVERN FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • DL
    DUKES LACROSSE CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
Drexel University

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…

Education
4
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
8
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
9
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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10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franklin & Marshall College; the most unlike its peers is Colonial School District Education Foundation. 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

21 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. 21 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $31,758 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGEFRANKLIN & MARSHALL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $31,500 · EducationFRANKLIN & MARSHALL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $26,000 · EducationMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOLLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGECORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGETHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $9,500 · EducationTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN+2 more: $4,000 · EducationCongaree Foundation: $102,501 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree FoundationF&M FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $12,800 · OtherF&M FOOTBALL AS…MALVERN PREP SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherMALVERN PREP SC…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual gran…THE MALVERN FUND: $2,500 · OtherDUKES LACROSSE CLUB: $2,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW: $2,000 · OtherPHILADELPHIA CRICKET CLUB: $2,000 · Other+17 more: $10,095 · Other+17 moreTHE 1854 FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE 1854 FOUN…EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,750 · HealthCure AP4 Inc: $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $600 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 · HealthGOOD GRIEF INC: $500 · HealthTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $2,538 · PhilanthropyColonial School District Education Foundation: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsCONGAREE RIVERKEEPER INC: $887 · Environment
Education$142,758Youth Development$102,501Other$46,895Human Services$40,000Health$5,850Philanthropy$3,038Recreation & Sports$2,500Environment$887

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCongaree Foundation: $102,501 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE 1854 FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE: $31,758 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN & MARSHALL FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION: $31,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREATHING ROOM FOUNDATION INC: $2,538 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA CRICKET CLUB: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure AP4 Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGAREE RIVERKEEPER INC: $887 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColonial School District Education Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD GRIEF INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Equitable Foundation …National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Philadelphia FoundationPA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Sheridan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sheridan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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