Maryland · Private foundation
Sherman Fairchild 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.
- $48M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 88
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $80,847
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 64 to 102
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 26
- Total assets, FY2024
- $690M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 86 | $48M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $42M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $53M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 94 | $46M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 102 | $30M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | $30,439,136 | 3 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $18,204,066 | 4 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $18,160,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $10,960,000 | 3 | 42% |
| Denison University | $10,075,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Union Theological Seminary | $10,000,000 | 1 | 26% |
| The New 42nd Street Inc | $8,100,000 | 3 | 21% |
| Partnership for Inner City Education Dba Partnership Schools | $7,375,000 | 4 | 20% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $6,250,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Frick Collection | $5,530,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($29M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc
- How much does Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc give?
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc reported 88 grants totaling $48,329,343 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 64 and 102 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (30%), Science & Tech (13%).
- Who are Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: California Institute of Technology ($30M), Northwestern University ($18M), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($18M).
- Does Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc based?
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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