· Private foundation
Sherman Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2023 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, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $65,902 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +61% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMID ATLANTIC BULLDOG RESCUE6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +36%
- FFFORGOTTEN FELINES AND FIDOS INC5× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +109%
- 1I1LOVE4ANIMALS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +209%
Funded once
- HSHOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -5%
- CFCOALITION FOR FERAL CATS OF LEHIGH VALLEYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- GOGIFT OF LIFE DONOR PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
To help rescue unwanted pets
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
To rescue abandoned and displaced cats and dogs, bring them back to health, provide all medical and prepare them for their new home
Our mission at the SPCA of Tennessee is to provide and promote the resources and programs needed to help animals in the state. Helping pets in need through our fostering program adoption, education, rehabilitation, spay and neuter and the…
Humans and animals united inc's mission is to provide temporary shelter to stray, abandoned and surrendered animals for the purpose of finding suitable permanent homes for these animals. the organization strives to prevent overpopulation…
Animal Welfare
Animal Welfare
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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
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.
- Who funds MID ATLANTIC BULLDOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN FELINES AND FIDOS INC ↗
- Who funds 1LOVE4ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE SANCTUARY AT HAAFSVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds PEACEABLE KINGDOM 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.
Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherman Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherman Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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