· Private foundation
Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| PEORIA MS '25 WALK | $2,500 |
| PERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY | $1,525 |
| PILGRIMS PROGRESS FOOD PANTRY | $1,525 |
| PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT | $1,525 |
| ANNIE JO GORDON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $1,525 |
| SALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-SHELTER | $1,525 |
| SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,525 |
| PEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER | $1,500 |
| PAWS GIVING INDEPENDENCE | $100 |
| SHERIDAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $88 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59 |
| Individual grant recipient | $59 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 17 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- POPRODUCT OF THE PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $12k
- TTTHE TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue -10%
- WAWESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NCNo Child Hungry Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +60%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- SASALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-BLOOMINGTONone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care
Sports program for youth
Providing partner for illinois department of human services for afterschool programming
Charitable and educational purposes;serve at-risk youth
Student support/Enrichment/Education
Provide service to assist individuals and families with food utility assistance and collaborate with other community agencies.
Teaching the ideals of sports, including sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play,discipline, respect, honesty, loyalty and courage; developing healthier, happier and more confident youth; combating juvenile delinquency by keeping youths…
Youth sports
The Woodlawn Childrens Promise Community is a community-based effort to radically improve the trajectory of childrens lives in Woodlawn, neighborhood on Chicagos Southside. We promote whole child development in every important aspect of a…
Adults day care
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Council and the most unlike its peers is Bloomington Normal Baseball Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds No Child Hungry Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE ↗
- Who funds PROMISE COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Bloomington Normal Baseball Association ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
- Who funds Hickory Grove Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds WD BOYCE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MCLEAN COUNTY PONY BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Illinois Prairie Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 organization Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.