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Sherlock Charitable Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
2
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$141kHealth$106kEducation$52kRecreation & Sports$48kFood & Nutrition$47kHuman Services$27kYouth Development$11kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k1 grant · $260
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$56,865
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SHERLOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$56,865
THE SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION$56,865
Individual grant recipient$260
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 (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ONE WARM COAT: $500 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%MANKIND PROJECT: $5k → 6%MANKIND PROJECT: $500 → 6%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $500 → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $3k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $3k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $3k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $2k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $500 → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $1k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN AID INC: $500 → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 9%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $7k → 9%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $2k → 9%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

WA
MN
NY
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$290k · 36 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 35 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
56

Total granted

$290k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

50%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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
    CALVARY FUND INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • WA
    WE ARE BLOOD
    3× · 2019–2021 · $32k · revenue +36%
  • ML
    MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $13k · revenue +320%

Funded once

  • IL
    I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -51%
  • Central Texas Food Bank Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -28%
  • WS
    WESTON SWIMMING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +17%
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
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
2
Western Connecticut Health Network Affiliates Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

—
3
Feeding Westchester Inc

Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.

—
4
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

—
5
Waterbury Hospital Foundation

The foundation facilitates equitable access to healthcare services for the greater waterbury community. our founding principles are to provide for the healthcare needs (including medical equipment and expenses) of the 13-town greater…

Health
6
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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7
Westchester Medical Center Foundation

Support westchester county health care corporation (wchcc) by being responsive to the needs and objectives of the hospital and related facilities and programs operated by wchcc and the health and welfare of the communities served by such…

Health
8
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

—
9
Friends of the World Food Program Inc

To inspire and mobilize people in the united states to support the mission of the u.n. world food programme to end hunger.

Human Services
10
Western Connecticut Health Network Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

—
11
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
12
West Side Center for Community Life

To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sherlock Family 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

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/62
Grantees still filing
44/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIKETEXAS: $21,000 · OtherBIKETEXASINTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATION: $17,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN BIKING ASSOCIATIONWESTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $17,350 · OtherWESTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $13,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherCORPUS CHRISTI HOLY ROSARY SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherTHE GHISALLO FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherWESTON SWIMMING INC: $7,240 · Other+52 more: $88,939 · Other+52 moreTHE SHERLOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $56,865 · PhilanthropyTHE SHERLOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATI…SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $56,865 · PhilanthropySHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATIONI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyI LIVE HERE I GIVE HEREPERSON TO PERSON INC: $9,500 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC+5 more: $5,100 · PhilanthropyCALVARY FUND INC: $50,000 · HealthCALVARY FUND INCWE ARE BLOOD: $32,000 · HealthWE ARE BLOOD+5 more: $5,000 · Health+5 moreBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $9,300 · Human ServicesALS ANGELS INC: $8,140 · Human ServicesMankind Project: $5,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $1,500 · Human Services+4 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RESCUE US INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $2,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,000 · ReligionLAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC: $5,000 · EducationFAIRFIELD POLICE UNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 · EducationNORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationWESTON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO INC: $500 · Education+1 more: $25 · Education
Other$193,229Philanthropy$138,330Health$87,000Human Services$29,940Food & Nutrition$20,000Religion$13,000Education$8,025

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALVARY FUND INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWE ARE BLOOD: $32,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $9,300 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALS ANGELS INC: $8,140 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWESTON SWIMMING INC: $7,240 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPETUCK LAND TRUST: $5,775 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMankind Project: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetWESTPORT POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD POLICE UNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGazelle Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFULL COURT PEACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES WESTCHESTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE WARM COAT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $407 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.

  • Who funds THE SHERLOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALVARY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WE ARE BLOOD ↗
  • Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
  • Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
  • Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds ALS ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTON SWIMMING INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
  • Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Mankind Project ↗
  • Who funds WESTON WARM-UP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds LAND OF MY GRANDFATHERS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Texas Mamma Jamma Ride Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS OF PORT CHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗

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.

Sherlock Family Found…Fairfield County's Co…The Shack Sackler Fou…Newman's Own Foundati…Fernwood FoundationMutual of America Fou…Joseph a Patrick Foun…Synchrony FoundationKurtz Family Foundati…The Tiger Tail Family…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Mbia Foundation
Sherlock Family FoundationCT24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sherlock Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Fernwood Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Joseph a Patrick Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Kurtz Family Foundation Trust · The Tiger Tail Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Mbia Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Family and Children's Aid Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
13report 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, 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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How do I get to Sherlock Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sherlock Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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