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Sherrill Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE LONGHORN FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $7,539 |
| HNI CHARITIES | $6,000 |
| GILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW | $3,000 |
| VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| YOUTH POWER 365 | $2,500 |
| THE AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| THE GOLDEN HUB COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| MUSEUM OF S TEXAS HISTORY | $1,500 |
| ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE AUSTIN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- GCGILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +14%
- GCGILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue ×15
- HCHNI CHARITIES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TGTHE GRACE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -65%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2020 · $4k
- TSTEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY BOBCAT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
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 houston geological society is a professional society for petroleum, energy and environmental geoscientists. the houston geological society supports continuing education, networking, outreach to students, student scholarships and young…
Our healing hearts program rescues animals from abuse, neglect or have a special need and introduces them to children and adults that suffer from the same backgrounds for some healing time at no cost.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
To provide broader recognition of the state's top achievers in medicine, engineering and science, and to build a stronger identity for texas as an important destination and center of achievement in these fields.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.
The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.
Texas cave management is an organization that works with members and partners to acquire and manage caves and karst. we actively work to conserve caves promote research and provide responsible recreational access
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Western Folklife Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rio Bravo Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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 GILLESPIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GILLESPIE COUNTY YOUTH LIVESTOCK SHOW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HNI CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF AUSTIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Womens Symphony League of Austin Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Starting Hearts ↗
- Who funds THE GRACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CREATE HEALTHY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPOWER365 ↗
- Who funds FORT MARTIN SCOTT FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds RIO BRAVO MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds The Texas State Historical Association ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HUGUENOT FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE SIX ONE SEVEN FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Inc 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.
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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