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Sherwat Charitable Trust

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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Environment$54kHealth$43kReligion$41kYouth Development$40kCivil Rights$38kPhilanthropy$24kFood & Nutrition$8kEducation$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$432k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
41 CHARITABLE ENTITIES$12,591
VA LEAGUE PLAN PARNTHD$10,000
THE KING STREET CENTER$10,000
THE NATURE CONSERVATORY$8,000
TEMPLE MICAH$7,075
SIERRA CLUB$6,300
SOUTHERN POV LAW CTR$5,000
OHEF SHOLOM TEMPLE$1,275
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$1,000
ACTION BEYOND WORDS$1,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INST$1,000
BURLINGTON CITY ARTS$1,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $40k) 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.

area typical 9%THE KING STREET CENTER: $10k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $10k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $10k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $5k → 10%KING STREET CENTER: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
MN
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MA
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
SC
DC
AL
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$233k · 20 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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7

Total granted

$233k
$3k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • KS
    KING STREET CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +125%
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue +59%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • TJ
    THEATRE J
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • UE
    UKRAINE EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

7
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
8
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brandeis University and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VA LEAGUE PLAN PARNTHD — $40,000 · OtherVA LEAGUE PLAN PARNTHDTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DC — $38,578 · OtherTEMPLE MICAH WASHINGTON DCSOUTHERN POV LAW CTR — $36,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POV LAW CTRTHE NATURE CONSERVATORY — $16,050 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVATORYSIERRA CLUB — $14,300 · OtherSIERRA CLUBTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $13,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY41 CHARITABLE ENTITIES — $12,591 · Other41 CHARITABLE ENTITIES40 CHARITABLE ENTITIES — $10,491 · Other+23 more — $29,125 · Other+23 moreKING STREET CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesKING STREET CENT…BREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $6,750 · Food & NutritionVERMONT FOODBANK — $1,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $3,350 · EnvironmentNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $2,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — $800 · EnvironmentSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $4,025 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $1,125 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $750 · EducationJEVAIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,300 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND — $500 · InternationalFriendship Place — $2,200 · Housing & Shelter
Other$210,135Human Services$40,000Food & Nutrition$7,750Environment$6,150Education$5,900International$2,800Housing & Shelter$2,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKING STREET CENTER INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSIERRA CLUB — $14,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $4,025 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION — $3,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEVAIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,300 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetFriendship Place — $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $1,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 KING STREET CENTER INC
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JEVAIA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Friendship Place
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK
  • Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds AMERICAN FOREST FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Sherwat Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • King Street Center Inc43% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc6% of income from government
  • Simmons University1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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