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The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable 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.

$26k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,031
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$486k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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ReligionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$16k13%
FY20247$16k14%
FY20239$13k33%
FY202210$14kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$38kPhilanthropy$26kHealth$5kRecreation & Sports$4kHuman Services$4kCrime & Legal$3kInternational$1kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Temple Beth El$24,1004n/a
Chabad of Bingham Farms$6,0504n/a
Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network$5,05030%
National Council of Jewish Women Michig$4,05040%
Michigan B'Nai B'Rith Hillel Foundation Inc$3,05030%
Jewish Resource Center$2,00020%
Chabad of Traverse City$2,0002n/a
Birthright Israel Foundation$1,0311n/a
The Detroit Institute of Arts$1,00010%
Yad Ezra$1,00010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

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.

Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman FoundationMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation

How much does The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation give?
The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $25,531 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Philanthropy (31%), Health (6%).
Who are The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Temple Beth El ($24k), Chabad of Bingham Farms ($6k), Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network ($5k).
Does The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation, Grosfeld Foundation, Edward and Norma Jean Meer Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation based?
The Emily and Ted Sherman Charitable Foundation is based in MI.

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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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