How much did SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION$6,350
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION$2,500
FILLING IN THE BLANKS$2,500
ASPETUCK LAND TRUST$2,500
AL'S ANGELS$2,500
LACHAT TOWN FARM$2,500
WESTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,500
WESTON SOCIAL SERVICE FUND$1,000
LAURALTON HALL$1,000
MID FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$1,000
ADAPTIVE SPORTS PARTNERS$1,000
WESTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
BJ RYAN'S FOUNDATION$1,000

02The need

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 (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$62k · 16 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$62k

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+186%

Still filing today

38%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalOther

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

FI
FILLING IN THE BLANKS
3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +749%
AL
ASPETUCK LAND TRUST
3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +57%
WH
WESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +28%

Funded once

WV
WESTON VOLUNTEER EMS
one grant, 2023 · $10k
NH
NORWALK HOSPITAL
one grant, 2023 · $3k
JV
JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONALgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +186%

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.

Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the Society is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture

Westchester Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural and aesthetic environment and resources of Westchester County, eastern Putnam County and its environs.

Environment

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

PROTECTING, ENHANCING AND CONSERVING open spaces encompassing MEADOWS, WOODLANDS, AND WATERWAYS IN THE town of Wilton CT.

Environment

Wallkill Valley Land Trust

To promote the preservation, protection and balanced use of the wallkill valley through acquisition, holding and management of fee simple title conservation easements.

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Westport Land Conservation Trust Inc

To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.

Environment

Southbury Land Trust Inc

The primary exempt purpose is the preservation of natural resources in southbury, connecticut including associated water, woodlands, open spaces, and animal and planet life therein

Environment

Wellesley Conservation Land Trust Inc

The mission of the WCLT is to protect and preserve the natural environment in Wellesley maintain sanctuaries open to the public for study and enjoyment educate youth and interest adults in matters of conservation.

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United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy

The Westerly Land Trust

The westerly land trust conserves open space, revitalizes culturally significant properties and provides environmental programs for the enduring benefit of our community.

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Wyndham Land Trust Inc

Conserve the natural resources of northeast connecticut-the watercourses, swamps, woodlands and open spaces, the plant and animal life therein, and the scenic natural and historic sites.

Environment

The Westport Library Association

The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…

Education

West Hartford Land Trust Inc

To engage and promote the preservation, improvement, study, protection and conservation of natural resources, including natural, scenic and historic sites, primaily in west hartford for the benefit of the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calvary Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weston Warm-Up Fund Inc. 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

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

6/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$67,499Education$8,350Human Services$7,000Environment$5,500Health$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,000International$1,000

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

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sherlock Charitable FoundationCT20.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sherlock Charitable Foundation · Fernwood Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Ge Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation SHERLOCK FAMILY 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.

2025

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061498087 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sherlock Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sherlock Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sherlock Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SHERLOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sherlock Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph