How much does Sherwood Trust give?

Sherwood Trust reported 34 grants totaling $1,201,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Sherwood Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (17%), Human Services (12%), Health (12%).

Who are Sherwood Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Council ($825k), Rural Development Initiatives Inc ($646k), Blue Mountain Action Council ($593k).

Does Sherwood Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Sherwood Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Sherwood Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, George T Welch Testamentary Trust, Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust.

Foundation Dossiers

Washington · Private foundation

Sherwood Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2024: 38
Organizations funded FY2023: 53%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $160,000
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 45; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $39M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Sherwood Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $728k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$1.2M	12%
FY2023	38	$1.5M	53%
FY2022	45	$1.2M	42%
FY2021	44	$1.6M	41%
FY2020	40	$1.2M	30%
FY2019	39	$1.2M	54%
FY2018	27	$1.0M	44%
FY2017	30	$1.2M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$1.8MHuman Services$1.2MHealth$1.2MPublic Benefit$941kEducation$926kArts & Culture$826kCivil Rights$801kFood & Nutrition$638kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Council	$825,000	8	53%
Rural Development Initiatives Inc	$646,000	8	9%
Blue Mountain Action Council	$593,000	5	3%
City of College Place	$500,000	1	n/a
City of Walla Walla	$408,000	4	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla	$236,000	7	7%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$231,000	3	0%
Walla Walla Community College Foundation	$230,213	4	1%
Walla Walla YMCA	$209,000	8	3%
Blue Mountain Health Cooperative	$205,115	2	36%

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All grantees of Sherwood Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Community Council	$825,000	8	53%
Rural Development Initiatives Inc	$646,000	8	9%
Blue Mountain Action Council	$593,000	5	3%
City of College Place	$500,000	1	n/a
City of Walla Walla	$408,000	4	n/a
Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla	$236,000	7	7%
Board of Trustees of Whitman College	$231,000	3	0%
Walla Walla Community College Foundation	$230,213	4	1%
Walla Walla YMCA	$209,000	8	3%
Blue Mountain Health Cooperative	$205,115	2	36%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc Tri-County Partners	$200,000	1	8%
The Star Project	$165,000	2	1%
Little Theatre of Walla Walla	$155,000	8	36%
Trilogy Recovery Community	$141,000	2	15%
Carnegie Picture Lab	$117,563	2	73%
Walla Walla Senior Citizens Center	$116,000	6	5%
Legal Counsel for Youth and Children	$100,000	3	2%
Providence St Mary Foundation	$100,000	3	3%
Walla Walla Gun Club	$100,000	1	22%
Hope Street	$98,961	4	23%
Tri-State Steelheaders	$95,600	2	32%
Walla Walla Community Hospice	$90,250	3	2%
Lillie Rice Center	$88,000	8	5%
Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless	$81,621	3	8%
Walla Walla University	$80,000	2	0%
Plus Delta After School Studios	$77,000	4	8%
Saint Basil Academy of Classical St	$72,500	1	24%
Vital Wines	$72,000	4	7%
Social Venture Partners	$65,000	7	1%
Dayton Development	$65,000	1	31%
Valley Residential Services	$60,000	3	0%
The Sustainable Living Center	$49,655	3	3%
Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc	$48,000	8	2%
Philanthropy Northwest	$47,120	5	0%
Milton Freewater Neighborhood Senior Center Inc	$47,000	3	43%
Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors	$45,000	1	14%
Christian Aid Center	$40,000	2	n/a
Waitburg Historical Society	$40,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Library of Walla Walla	$35,000	7	n/a
Friends of Children of Walla Walla	$32,500	3	15%
Community Resilience Initiative	$32,000	2	6%
Childrens Museum of Walla Walla	$31,400	1	41%
City of Waitsburg	$30,000	1	n/a
Camp Fire Walla Walla	$26,000	6	7%
Mercy Enterprise Corporation	$25,000	1	n/a
Helpline	$20,000	1	5%
Blue Mountain Humane Society	$18,000	8	1%
Rotary Foundation of Walla Walla	$17,000	1	35%
Cardinals Nest	$15,000	1	n/a
Citizens Tv Inc	$15,000	1	71%
Walla Walla Area Crime Watch	$15,000	1	n/a
501 Commons	$14,800	1	0%
Rural Youth Enrichment Services	$12,000	1	n/a
Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance	$10,000	1	15%
Walla Walla Sheriff's Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Camp Kiwanis Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Blue Mountain Land Trust	$10,000	1	1%
Blue Mountain Therapeutic Riding	$10,000	1	11%
Walla Walla Valley Disability Network	$10,000	1	8%
Rural Alliance	$10,000	1	2%
The Kids Place	$10,000	1	3%
Community Food Bank of Dayton	$8,000	1	n/a
Blue Mountain Arts Alliance	$8,000	1	17%
United Way of the Blue Mountains	$7,850	1	2%
The Children's Museum Seattle	$7,500	1	1%
Milton-Freewater Area Historical Society	$6,400	1	8%
Intermountain Impact Investments	$3,000	1	5%
Blue Mountain Heart to Heart	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.

Sherwood Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 55.

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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.

Blue Mountain Community FoundationWA114.4× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · United Way of the Blue Mountains · The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 · School's Out Washington

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.

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About Sherwood Trust

How much does Sherwood Trust give?: Sherwood Trust reported 34 grants totaling $1,201,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sherwood Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (17%), Human Services (12%), Health (12%).
Who are Sherwood Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Community Council ($825k), Rural Development Initiatives Inc ($646k), Blue Mountain Action Council ($593k).
Does Sherwood Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sherwood Trust accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sherwood Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, George T Welch Testamentary Trust, Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust.
Where is Sherwood Trust based?: Sherwood Trust is based in WA.