· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 78 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 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 NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
- Who funds THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherrill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherrill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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