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The M D SHERRILL Foundation at a glance

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The M D SHERRILL 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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$170kPhilanthropy$18kCrime & Legal$15kHuman Services$5kEducation$5kHousing & Shelter$5kPublic Benefit$3kReligion$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
101 East 69th St Conservancy$34,000
PALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND$30,000
Florence Griswold Museum$15,000
NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$11,000
SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI NH$5,000
BATTERY FOUNDATION$4,000
Jamestown Society$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Manhattan Institute$1,000
CATO Institute$1,000
Colonial Order of the Acorn$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAYFLOWER HEREDITARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 16%THE HOLLAND FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%BATTERY FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%New Criterion NonProfit: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: $5k → 9%NYS PCC: $15k → 17%Manhattan Institute: $1k → 20%CATO Institute: $1k → 14%PALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND: $30k → 11%Florence Griswold Museum: $15k → 9%Colonial Order of the Acorn: $1k → 9%CJC MUSIC SCHOOL: $5k → 7%FRIENDS OF MUSIC SCHOOL: $5k → 8%Jamestown Society: $3k → 7%NE HGS: $20k → 7%NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11k → 16%BATTERY FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY: $2k → 17%CATO INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%PALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND: $10k → 11%NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 16%B ROBERT WILLIAMSON JR FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%WOODLEY HOUSE: $5k → 14%GENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS: $5k → 16%101 East 69th St Conservancy: $34k → 17%SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI NH: $5k → 14%101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $3k → 14%101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $5k → 17%SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI - NH: $1k → 14%THE NEW CRITERION: $5k → 17%LSA FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
DC
FL
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$92k · 6 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$92k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
PhilanthropyArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PB
    PALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $21k
  • 1E
    101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +41%
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
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
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7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
The Columbia Foundation
Philanthropy
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
11
The Charles R Bronfman Prize Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Holland Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 27 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND: $40,000 · OtherPALM BEACH PRESERVATION FUND101 East 69th St Conservancy: $34,000 · Other101 East 69th St ConservancyNEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $21,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETYNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+13 more: $48,250 · Other+13 moreFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE GRIS…101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $15,000 · Arts & Culture101 EAST 69TH…THE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $15,000 · Crime & LegalTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · PhilanthropyB ROBERT WILLIAMSON JR FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $5,000 · HealthTHE HOLLAND FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$183,250Arts & Culture$30,000Crime & Legal$15,000Philanthropy$9,000Health$5,000Housing & Shelter$4,000Public Benefit$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $15,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOLLAND FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetB ROBERT WILLIAMSON JR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The M D SHERRILL Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The M D SHERRILL Foundation 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 27 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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