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Sherrill 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $490k
- $250k+1 grant · $270k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $270,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $65,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $50,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC | $26,400 |
| ONCOURSE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $25,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL WEST BALLET | $25,000 |
| BUCKLEY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society6× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +44%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY5× · 2018–2024 · $698k · revenue +8%- PBPRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $580k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- PAPHELPS ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $109k
- SOSOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERINGone grant, 2022 · $75k
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF MSKone grant, 2022 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 78 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PUBLICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF LIVE STREAM THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Helen Hay Whitney Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WEST BALLET ↗
- Who funds The Adderley School Foundation ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds BUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PHELPS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Acquavella Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Robertson Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Jewish Communal Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sherrill Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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