· Private foundation
The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER | $80,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| WORLD VETS | $20,000 |
| HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE | $15,000 |
| AFRICAN WILDFIRE FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| KAREN BARLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| PETS FOR PATRIOTS | $5,000 |
| PUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $5,000 |
| DC RURAL DOG RESCUE | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BABALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +56%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +31%- THTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC6× · 2018–2023 · $114k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- DPDFW Pug Rescue Club Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +81%
- BABAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ALANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +29%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.
Battling against the overpopulation of homeless pets and improving the lives of companion animals through rescue, fostering programs, adoption, pet care, educational programs and of course spaying and neutering.
Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Baltimore County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Irvine Natural Science Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VETS ↗
- Who funds DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HART FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR PATRIOTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds GOATS OF ANARCHY INC ↗
- Who funds DFW Pug Rescue Club Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
- Who funds PUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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