Maryland · Private foundation
Sherwat Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $89k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 65%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $387k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 65% of the organizations Sherwat Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 73 | $82k | 81% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $72k | 65% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $57k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $51k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $45k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $36k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Street Center Inc | $52,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Temple Micah Washington DC | $46,260 | 6 | n/a |
| Sierra Club | $18,800 | 4 | 0% |
| Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Simmons University | $5,125 | 4 | 0% |
| National Arbor Day Foundation | $4,650 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Carnegie Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Katie's Kids | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sherwat Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sherwat Charitable Trust
- How much does Sherwat Charitable Trust give?
- Sherwat Charitable Trust reported 82 grants totaling $88,863 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Sherwat Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Health (16%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Sherwat Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: King Street Center Inc ($53k), Temple Micah Washington DC ($46k), Sierra Club ($19k).
- Does Sherwat Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 65% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sherwat Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sherwat Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sherwat Charitable Trust based?
- Sherwat Charitable Trust is based in MD.
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