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Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
79%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
12 to 31
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$48k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 79% of the organizations Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHealthArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$16k81%
FY202428$19k79%
FY202331$24k71%
FY202225$20k84%
FY202112$9kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$14kRecreation & Sports$14kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$5kEducation$4kArts & Culture$3kReligion$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Product of the Project$12,0255n/a
The Tinervin Family Foundation$9,25040%
No Child Hungry Inc$7,95010%
Western Avenue Community Center$7,00021%
Southside Community Center$1,5251n/a
Peoria Area Civic Chorale$1,50031%
Promise Council$1,31212%
Bloomington Normal Baseball Association$95020%
Miracle League of Central Illinois Inc$75014%
Hickory Grove Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc$70021%
Notre Dame High School of Peoria Inc$5001n/a
Wd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$30310%
McLean County Pony Baseball Inc$30020%
G&G Foundation$2001n/a
American Cancer Society Inc$20010%
Paws Giving Independence$10010%
Easter Seals Inc$10010%
Stage 212 Inc$5010%

Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Tinervin Family Foundation: $9,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNo Child Hungry Inc: $7,950 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestern Avenue Community Center: $7,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPeoria Area Civic Chorale: $1,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPromise Council: $1,312 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBloomington Normal Baseball Association: $950 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMiracle League of Central Illinois Inc: $750 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHickory Grove Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWd Boyce Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $303 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcLean County Pony Baseball Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Giving Independence: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStage 212 Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Illinois Prairie Community Foundation IncIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp

How much does Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp give?
Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp reported 22 grants totaling $16,290 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 31 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (26%), Human Services (15%), Recreation & Sports (15%).
Who are Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Product of the Project ($12k), The Tinervin Family Foundation ($9k), No Child Hungry Inc ($8k).
Does Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 79% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp based?
Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp is based in IL.

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 94 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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