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Sherman Service League

To foster interest among its members in the social, economic, educa- tional cultural and civic comditions of the community and to encourage members to use their volunteer time effectively in service to t

$115k
Granted FY2019
11
Itemized grants FY2019
11
Organizations funded FY2019
18%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$84k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$9,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$77k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 18% of the organizations Sherman Service League funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Housing & ShelterReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201911$84k18%
FY201810$81k30%
FY201712$96kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Human Services$91kHousing & Shelter$44kYouth Development$44kCrime & Legal$36kFood & Nutrition$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kArts & Culture$7kHealth$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sherman Service League supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrayson County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc: $28,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGrayson County Welfare Board Inc: $25,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Sherman Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGrayson County Women's Crisis Line Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGrayson County Juvenile Alternatives Inc North Texas Youth Connection: $21,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetChild and Family Guidance Center of Texoma: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMasterkey Ministries of Grayson County: $17,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFamily Promise of Grayson County: $15,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity International Grayson County: $12,834 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWesley Village Retirement Home Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHouse of Eli Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFour Rivers Outreach Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHome Hospice of Grayson County Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Texas Instruments FoundationTX21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · United Way of Grayson County Inc · Texoma Medical Center Volunteers · W B Munson Foundation Xxxxx5008 · Elias & Hanna Regensburger Foundation · The Oliver Dewey Mayor Foundation · Texoma Community Foundation · Clara B & W Aubrey Smith Charitable · Children's Clinic of Sherman · Wilson N Jones Community Foundation · Harry H Gibson Family Foundation · North Texas Food Bank

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.

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How do I get to Sherman Service League?

Find your warmest path to Sherman Service League through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sherman Service League

How much does Sherman Service League give?
Sherman Service League reported 11 itemized grants totaling $83,834, out of $115,024 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Sherman Service League fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Sherman Service League's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Grayson County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($28k), Grayson County Welfare Board Inc ($26k), Grayson Grand Central Station ($25k).
Does Sherman Service League fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sherman Service League?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, United Way of Grayson County Inc, Texoma Medical Center Volunteers.
Where is Sherman Service League based?
Sherman Service League is based in TX.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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