· Private foundation
Sherlock Family Foundation
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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PENN STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,500 |
| ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION | $5,400 |
| WESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| AL'S ANGELS | $3,000 |
| MID FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $2,500 |
| ASPETUCK LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $2,500 |
| BJ RYAN'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTON SENIOR ACTIVITIES CENTER | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| WESTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG | $1,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 8 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAALS ANGELS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +31%
- ZTZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +6%
- FIFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- BEBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -6%
- NHNORWALK HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
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Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
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The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.
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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.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
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How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 ALS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds ZETA TAU ALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON WARM-UP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORWALK EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALVARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE VENTURES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON COMMUNITY FUND 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.
Open a dossier: Sherlock Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fernwood Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherlock Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherlock Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc: 30% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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