Maryland · Private foundation
Sherman Family Foundation
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.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 118
- Grants FY2024
- 105
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 49%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,900,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 105
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $73M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 49% of the organizations Sherman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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 | 115 | $19M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 105 | $19M | 49% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $13M | 57% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $5.0M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $3.7M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $3.6M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Urban Families Inc | $3,560,000 | 7 | 23% |
| Teach for America Inc | $2,870,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc | $2,614,127 | 4 | 1% |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $2,130,250 | 7 | 3% |
| The Family Tree Inc | $1,999,332 | 7 | 12% |
| Long Island University | $1,888,361 | 4 | 0% |
| Fund for Educational Excellence Inc | $1,630,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Point Source Youth Inc | $1,625,000 | 3 | 15% |
| The United Way of Central Maryland Inc | $1,585,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Center Stage Associates Inc | $1,405,370 | 4 | 6% |
Show all 156 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($27M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sherman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 146 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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Morris Goldseker Foundation of Maryland Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Richman Family Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · Blanket Fort Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sherman Family Foundation
- How much does Sherman Family Foundation give?
- Sherman Family Foundation reported 118 grants totaling $18,984,201 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 105 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sherman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Human Services (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Sherman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Urban Families Inc ($3.6M), Teach for America Inc ($2.9M), Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Sherman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 49% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sherman Family Foundation 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc, France-Merrick Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sherman Family Foundation based?
- Sherman Family Foundation is based in MD.
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