· Private foundation
Sherwood Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Sherwood Family Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Sherwood Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY | $7,500 |
| NAPLES UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $6,000 |
| GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION & CHOICES | $2,000 |
| ARTIST NAPLES | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOSPICE IOWA RIVER INC | $500 |
| HAUENSTEIN CENTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES | $500 |
| LAKEWOOD OHIO COMM FUND OF CLEVELAND | $300 |
| ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK | $250 |
| FAITH HOSPICE | $200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY21–22, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +84% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2019, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC4× · 2017–2022 · $7k · revenue +27%
- CCCOMPASSION & CHOICES3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +169%
- SFSEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- FMFREDERIK MEIJER GARDENSone grant, 2017 · $25k
- NCNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +84%
- ONOPERA NAPLES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +165%
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 41 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds Opera Grand Rapids ↗
- Who funds OPERA NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COUNTY SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AVOW Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Faith Hospice ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Gillett Family Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sherwood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherwood Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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