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Sherwood Foundation at a glance

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Sherwood Foundation

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.

$100k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$316kYouth Development$193kHealth$173kHuman Services$125kPhilanthropy$80kCommunity Improvement$20kHousing & Shelter$20kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Momentum Agencies Charitable Founda$20,000
Open Paths Counseling Center$20,000
Wise Readers to Leaders$20,000
Club 21 Learning Resource$20,000
Santa Monica College Foundation$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Mychal's Learning Place: $13k → 14%Alexandra House: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%One Voice: $20k → 14%Organization for Social Media Safte: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$788k · 12 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$788k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+41%

Still filing today

42%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OV
    One Voice
    6× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +39%
  • WR
    WISE READERS TO LEADERS
    5× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +8%
  • AP
    A PLACE CALLED HOME
    4× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AH
    ALEXANDRIA HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -80%
  • C2
    Club 21
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • HA
    HILLEL AT UCLA
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +25%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Institute of Los Angeles

Providing low-cost, diverse social services throughout los angeles county.

Human Services
2
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
5
Los Angeles Education Partnership

To advance educational equity. together with families, schools and the community, facilitate access to and opportunities for quality educational and wellness practices so that children thrive from diapers to diplomas.

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6
Youth Policy Institute Inc

Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.

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7
La's Best

La's best provides free supervised before and after-school activities to over 15,000 children at 200 schools in los angeles unified school district (lausd).

Education
8
South Central Los Angeles Regional Center for Dev Disabled Persons Inc

South central los angeles regional center, (sclarc), believes special needs deserve special attention. we are committed to the provision of culturally sensitive services which enhance the inherent strengths of the family and enable…

Human Services
9
Trauma Informed La
Civil Rights
10
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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11
Academy for Early Learning Inc

Academy for early learning provides early childhood care and education to the children and families of the city of inglewood and surrounding cities. early childhood education is the foundation for a succesful learner.

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12
Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc

Hollywood Schoolhouse knows, values, and encourages fearless curiosity. Through a blended program of innovative academics and structured learning, our diverse community inspires students to be academically strong, artistically proud,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Development Institute; the most unlike its peers is Organization for Social Media Safety. 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

13 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. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

A PLACE CALLED HOME: $80,000 · OtherA PLACE CALLED HOMESanta Monica City College Foundatio: $60,000 · OtherSanta Monica City College FoundatioClub 21 Learning Resource Center: $60,000 · OtherClub 21 Learning Resource CenterFriends In Deed: $60,000 · OtherFriends In DeedPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $60,000 · OtherPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORKClub 21 Learning Resource: $40,000 · OtherClub 21 Learning ResourceJewish Big Brothers and Sisters of: $32,500 · OtherJewish Big Brothers and Sisters ofMomentum Agencies Charitable Founda: $20,000 · OtherClub 21: $20,000 · OtherHILLEL AT UCLA: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · Other+3 more: $22,050 · OtherOne Voice: $120,000 · Human ServicesOne VoiceALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRIA HOUSEMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $12,500 · Human ServicesMYCHALS LEARNING P…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentWISE READER…CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $80,000 · HealthCHILD DEVEL…OPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $20,000 · HealthOPEN PATHS …SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $77,500 · EducationSCHOOL ON W…THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationTHE SANTA M…INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$492,050Human Services$157,500Youth Development$100,000Health$100,000Education$97,500Community Improvement$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOne Voice: $120,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWISE READERS TO LEADERS: $100,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $77,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYCHALS LEARNING PLACE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 One Voice ↗
  • Who funds WISE READERS TO LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds A PLACE CALLED HOME ↗
  • Who funds CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds OPEN PATHS COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL AT UCLA ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR THE CITY ↗
  • Who funds MYCHALS LEARNING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SAFETY ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…S Mark Taper Foundati…Ccf Community Initiat…The Deutsch FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Local Initiatives Sup…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
California Community FoundationCA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · The Deutsch Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sherwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sherwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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