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Sherwood Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

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
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $96k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAR Project$160,000
Christain Aid Center$150,000
Carnegie Picture Lab$116,563
Rural Development Initiatives$111,101
City of Walla Walla$100,000
Trilogy Recovery Community$100,000
Blue Mountain Action Council$75,000
Blue Mountain Health Cooperative$70,115
Communities in Schools of the Blue Mountain Region$70,000
Walla Walla Alliance for the Homeless$58,621
Community Council$50,000
Salvation Army$26,000
Vital Wines$20,000
Catholic Charities of Spokane DBA Catholic Charities Eastern Washington$18,000
Milton-Freewater Neighborhood Senior Center$17,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $760k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YWCA of Walla Walla: $205k → 13%YMCA OF WALLA WALLA: $100k → 13%WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER DBA THE CENTER AT THE PARK: $91k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $75k → 13%HOPE STREET: $55k → 13%WALLA WALLA YMCA: $40k → 13%HOPE STREET: $29k → 13%YMCA OF WALLA WALLA: $25k → 13%WALLA WALLA SENIOR CENTER: $21k → 13%YMCA OF WALLA WALLA: $15k → 13%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $15k → 13%Hope Street: $15k → 13%WALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $10k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%WALLA WALLA YMCA: $5k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%YMCA of Walla Walla: $5k → 13%YMCA of Walla Walla: $5k → 13%YMCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%YWCA of Walla Walla: $5k → 13%WALLA WALLA YMCA: $5k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $5k → 13%YMCA OF WALLA WALLA: $4k → 13%Walla Walla Senior Center: $1k → 13%Walla Walla Senior Center: $1k → 13%YWCA OF WALLA WALLA: $1k → 13%WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER DBA THE CENTER AT THE PARK: $1k → 13%WALLA WALLA SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 13%Walla Walla Community Hospice: $250 → 13%Hope Street: $250 → 13%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 52 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
80

Total granted

$7.2M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $221k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalCommunity 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

  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNCIL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +2% · 53% of their budget
  • RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $646k · revenue +114%
  • BM
    BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2024 · $593k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF COLLEGE PLACE
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -39%
  • BM
    Blue Mountain Community Foundation for Comittment to Community
    one grant, 2023 · $175k
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
The Wallace Medical Concern

We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.

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2
Walla Walla Basin Watershed Foundation

The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…

Environment
3
Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce

The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.

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4
Walla Walla Summer Theater Group

To transform the Fort Walla Walla Amphitheater into a nationally recognized regional theater, while enhancing the cultural identity of Walla Walla through locally produced performing arts events and accessible educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
5
Wallowa Valley Arts Council

To promote the arts in wallowa county, oregon.

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6
Wallingford Community Senior Center

WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.

Philanthropy
7
Washington Museum Association

The Washington Museum Association was established to represent and serve museums of all types and sizes throughout Washington State

Arts & Culture
8
Wallowa Land Trust

Our mission is to protect the rural nature of Wallowa County by working cooperatively with private landowners,indigenous people, local communities and governmental entities to conserve land.

Environment
9
Waitsburg High School Alumni Association
Education
10
Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society

To deepen the sense of community within the walla walla region by safekeeping the past, informing the present, and shaping our future.

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11
Washington Community Alliance

Washington Community Alliance WCA is a statewide network of over 70 organizations working to advance multiracial social democracy by coordinating values aligned civic engagement

Civil Rights
12
Washington State Rural Development Council

The primary purpose of Washington State Rural Development Council is to work with rural partners around Washington State to coordinate services to rural communities and promote initiatives that support rural community and economic…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Christian Association of Walla Walla; the most unlike its peers is Saint Basil Academy of Classical St. 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

60 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. 60 of the 137 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/60
Grantees still filing
36/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $646,000 · OtherRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INCBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL - C2C: $531,500 · OtherBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL - C2CCITY OF COLLEGE PLACE: $500,000 · OtherCITY OF COLLEGE PLACECITY OF WALLA WALLA: $408,000 · OtherCITY OF WALLA WALLASTUDENT HEALTH OPTIONS DBA THE HEALTH CENTER: $220,200 · Other+101 more: $4,014,366 · Other+101 moreCOMMUNITY COUNCIL: $825,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY…+2 more: $24,800 · Community ImprovementYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA: $236,000 · Human ServicesWALLA WALLA YMCA: $209,000 · Human ServicesWALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $116,000 · Human ServicesHOPE STREET: $98,961 · Human ServicesWalla Walla Community Hospice: $90,250 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $231,000 · EducationWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $230,213 · EducationWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · EducationPLUS DELTA AFTER SCHOOL STUDIOS: $77,000 · EducationSAINT BASIL ACADEMY OF CLASSICAL ST: $72,500 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $593,000 · Food & NutritionBLUE MOUNTAIN HEALTH COOPERATIVE: $205,115 · HealthTrilogy Recovery Community: $141,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthVALLEY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $60,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE INITIATIVE: $32,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthLittle Theatre of Walla Walla: $155,000 · Arts & CultureCarnegie Picture Lab: $117,563 · Arts & CultureVITAL WINES: $72,000 · Arts & CultureWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc: $48,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLA: $31,400 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $21,900 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,320,066Community Improvement$849,800Human Services$760,211Education$710,713Food & Nutrition$593,000Health$548,115Arts & Culture$445,863

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY COUNCIL: $825,000 over 8y, 53% of budgetRURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC: $646,000 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL: $593,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA: $236,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetBOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE: $231,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $230,213 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWALLA WALLA YMCA: $209,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN HEALTH COOPERATIVE: $205,115 over 2y, 36% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS: $200,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetThe Star Project: $165,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLittle Theatre of Walla Walla: $155,000 over 8y, 36% of budgetTrilogy Recovery Community: $141,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCarnegie Picture Lab: $117,563 over 2y, 73% of budgetWALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER: $116,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN: $100,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWALLA WALLA GUN CLUB: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHOPE STREET: $98,961 over 4y, 23% of budgetTri-State Steelheaders: $95,600 over 2y, 32% of budgetWalla Walla Community Hospice: $90,250 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetLillie Rice Center: $88,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetWALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $81,621 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLUS DELTA AFTER SCHOOL STUDIOS: $77,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetSAINT BASIL ACADEMY OF CLASSICAL ST: $72,500 over 1y, 24% of budgetVITAL WINES: $72,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $65,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDAYTON DEVELOPMENT: $65,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetVALLEY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SUSTAINABLE LIVING CENTER: $49,655 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWalla Walla Symphony Society Inc: $48,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $47,120 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMILTON FREEWATER NEIGHBORHOOD SENIOR CENTER INC: $47,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetCentral Washington Justice For Our Neighbors: $45,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $43,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA: $32,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESILIENCE INITIATIVE: $32,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCHILDRENS MUSEUM OF WALLA WALLA: $31,400 over 1y, 41% of budgetCAMP FIRE WALLA WALLA: $26,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetHelpline: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $18,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetRotary Foundation of Walla Walla: $17,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetCITIZENS TV INC: $15,000 over 1y, 71% of budget501 Commons: $14,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMilton Freewater Downtown Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAIN THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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 COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WALLA WALLA ↗
  • Who funds BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WHITMAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA YMCA ↗
  • Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HEALTH COOPERATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC TRI-COUNTY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds The Star Project ↗
  • Who funds Little Theatre of Walla Walla ↗
  • Who funds Trilogy Recovery Community ↗
  • Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE ST MARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA GUN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
  • Who funds Tri-State Steelheaders ↗
  • Who funds Walla Walla Community Hospice ↗
  • Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
  • Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PLUS DELTA AFTER SCHOOL STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds SAINT BASIL ACADEMY OF CLASSICAL ST ↗
  • Who funds VITAL WINES ↗

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 Communi…George T Welch Testam…Yancey P Winans Testa…Estate of Joseph L St…Clara and Art Bald Tr…Mary Garner Esary Tru…United Way of the Blu…The Sunny Day Charita…Bonnie & Clifford Bra…Providence Health & S…Milton-Freewater Area…School's Out Washingt…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Milton Freewater Downtown Alliance: 13% of income from government
  • Rural Development Initiatives Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report 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, 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.
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How do I get to Sherwood Trust?

Find your warmest path to Sherwood Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 137 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.

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