· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k32 grants · $836k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $3.7M
- $250k+19 grants · $44M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Union Theological Seminary | $10,000,000 |
| Northwestern University | $7,500,000 |
| The New 42nd Street Inc | $5,750,000 |
| Bard College | $5,000,000 |
| Worcester Art Museum | $5,000,000 |
| Yale Divinity School | $2,000,000 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $2,000,000 |
| Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums | $1,500,000 |
| The Apollo Theater Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 |
| NXTHVN | $750,000 |
| The Salvation Army of Greater New York Division | $700,000 |
| The Boys' Club of New York Inc | $500,000 |
| The Salvation Army Miami | $300,000 |
| The Salvation Army National Capital Area Command | $300,000 |
| The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland | $300,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $985k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
92 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY3× · 2020–2022 · $30M · revenue +0%
Northwestern University4× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +33%- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +119%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hillone grant, 2022 · $7.5M
- YUYale Universityone grant, 2021 · $4.0M
- LCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $3.0M · revenue 0%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
How this is measured
210 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. 210 of the 261 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherman Fairchild Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Casa Familia Inc: 53% of income from government
- World Learning Inc: 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
- University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
- Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc: 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- Miami Music Project Inc: 2% of income from government
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- University of Portland: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc: 1% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- The College of New Jersey Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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