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Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp at a glance

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Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
2
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT$2,500
PEORIA MS '25 WALK$2,500
SALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-SHELTER$1,525
PERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY$1,525
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER$1,525
PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT$1,525
ANNIE JO GORDON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER$1,525
PILGRIMS PROGRESS FOOD PANTRY$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PEORIA MS '25 WALK: $3k → 17%NO CHILD HUNGRY: $8k → 13%EUREKA GRACE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE: $550 → 7%PEKIN YMCA: $534 → 9%WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 11%PERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 13%CANTON UNION SCHOOL DIST 66: $650 → 13%PHOENIX COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%SALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-BLOOMINGTON: $3k → 11%PERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 13%MAIN STREET PLAY CAFE: $534 → 9%TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SOPHIA'S KITCHEN: $3k → 14%TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%PILGRIMS PROGRESS FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 14%TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%ANNIE JO GORDON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $2k → 14%WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 11%SALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-SHELTER: $2k → 11%THE YANI COLLECTIVE: $1k → 14%WEST BLM REVITALIZATION: $2k → 11%TARYN BRADLEYTHE YANI COLLECTIVE: $1k → 14%PROMISE COUNCIL: $1k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $750 → 11%THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS: $500 → 11%SAMS WOOFSTOCK: $1k → 14%SAMS WOOFSTOCK: $1k → 14%SAMS WOOFSTOCK: $1k → 14%SAMS WOOFSTOCK: $1k → 14%SAMS WOOFSTOCK: $500 → 14%PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT: $3k → 14%PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE: $500 → 14%PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT: $500 → 14%PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE: $500 → 14%PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE: $500 → 14%PEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER: $2k → 14%PEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER: $2k → 14%PEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER: $2k → 14%PEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER: $2k → 14%CHRISTIAN CENTER SPONSORSHIP: $2k → 14%PEORIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $750 → 14%PEORIA NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 14%PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT: $2k → 14%HICKORY GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 13 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
64

Total granted

$48k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+9%

Still filing today

46%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WA
    WESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +21%
  • PA
    PEORIA AREA CIVIC CHORALE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +244%
  • HG
    Hickory Grove Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $700 · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NC
    No Child Hungry Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +60%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-BLOOMINGTON
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Illinois Institute for Children

Providing Social Services to Families including Child Care

Human Services
2
Illinois Children's Healthcare Foundation
Human Services
3
Matteson Youth Athletic Association

Sports program for youth

Recreation & Sports
4
Family Cares Afc Mission

Providing partner for illinois department of human services for afterschool programming

Human Services
5
Youth and Family Center of McHENRY Cty

Charitable and educational purposes;serve at-risk youth

Youth Development
6
Illinois Congress of Parents Teachers

Student support/Enrichment/Education

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7
Westside Community Action Council

Provide service to assist individuals and families with food utility assistance and collaborate with other community agencies.

Community Improvement
8
Illinois Hawks Baseball Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
So Cal Aces Baseball Club

Youth sports

Religion
10
Hands of Hope Illinois
Education
11
Woodlawn Children's Promise Community

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…

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12
Southside Senior Citizen Center

Adults day care

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise Council; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 94 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRODUCT OF THE PROJECT: $12,025 · OtherPRODUCT OF THE PROJECTWESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER: $7,000 · OtherWESTERN AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTERPEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTER: $6,000 · OtherPEORIA CHRISTIAN CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRY: $4,442 · OtherPERU HALL TOWNSHIP FOOD PANTRYIndividual grant recipient: $2,917 · OtherSALVATION ARMYSAFE HARBOR-BLOOMINGTON: $2,916 · OtherPEORIA MS '25 WALK: $2,500 · Other+77 more: $25,337 · Other+77 moreTHE TINERVIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $9,250 · ReligionTHE TINERVI…No Child Hungry Inc: $7,950 · Food & NutritionNo Child H…PROMISE COUNCIL: $1,312 · EducationHickory Grove Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization Inc: $700 · EducationBloomington Normal Baseball Association: $950 · Recreation & SportsMIRACLE LEAGUE OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $750 · Recreation & SportsMCLEAN COUNTY PONY BASEBALL INC: $300 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $200 · HealthSTAGE 212 INC: $50 · Arts & Culture
Other$67,637Religion$9,250Food & Nutrition$7,950Education$2,012Recreation & Sports$2,000Health$200Arts & Culture$50

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 ↗

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 Comm…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherman Family Community Foundation Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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