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Sherman Harold Q Trust Under Will at a glance

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Sherman Harold Q Trust Under Will

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.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$962kReligion$383kPublic Safety & Disaster$309kHuman Services$267kArts & Culture$230kMembership Benefit$21k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$46,169
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY$81,448
SAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY$46,169
STANDING STONE METHODIST CHURCH$46,169
TOWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY$46,169
AMERICAN RED CROSS$46,169
SPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY$46,169
BRADFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$33,858
TOWANDA AREA HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
STANDING STONE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$3,078
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $309k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $53k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $48k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $46k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $45k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $44k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $38k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $36k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
0

Total granted

$2.2M
$0

Still filing today

40%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    7× · 2017–2024 · $309k · revenue +46%
  • SP
    SAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $309k · revenue +119%
  • SM
    SPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $309k · revenue +10% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

    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
    04the grantee network

    5 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. 5 of the 10 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.

    2
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    4/5
    Grantees still filing
    4/5
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    STANDING STONE METHODIST CHURCH: $309,457 · OtherSTANDING STONE METHODIST CHURCHSAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $309,455 · OtherSAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY INCTOWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $309,455 · OtherTOWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARYSPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $309,455 · OtherSPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING ASSOCIATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY: $266,685 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $73,477 · Other+2 more: $55,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $309,457 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…BRADFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $229,571 · Arts & CultureBRADFORD CO…
    Other$1,632,984Human Services$309,457Arts & Culture$229,571

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

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $309,457 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $309,455 over 7y, 24% of budgetTOWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $309,455 over 7y, 21% of budgetSPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING ASSOCIATION: $309,455 over 7y, 25% of budgetBRADFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $229,571 over 7y, 25% 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
    • Who funds SAYRE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
    • Who funds TOWANDA PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
    • Who funds SPALDING MEMORIAL LIBRARY BUILDING ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds BRADFORD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Sherman Harold Q Trust Under Will funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherman Harold Q Trust Under Will. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
      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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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