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The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$52kHuman Services$10kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
$7,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPAY PANAMA: $10k → 17%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $60k → 9%WORLD VETS: $20k → 9%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $80k → 6%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $65k → 11%HART FOR ANIMALS: $10k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $30k → 19%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORLD VETS: $10k → 9%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $60k → 6%BALTIMORE HUMANE SOCIETY: $35k → 11%HART FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $15k → 19%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORLD VETS: $10k → 9%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $53k → 6%HART FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $15k → 15%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $15k → 19%AFRICAN WILDFIRE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORLD VETS: $10k → 9%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $50k → 6%HART FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 15%DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE: $10k → 15%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $13k → 19%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $20k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORLD VETS: $10k → 9%HART FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 15%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 15%BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER: $9k → 19%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%WORLD VETS: $10k → 9%HART FOR ANIMALS: $8k → 15%DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE: $10k → 15%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25k → 9%BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE: $10k → 15%DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE: $8k → 15%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%DAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE: $8k → 15%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $12k → 14%HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%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

WA
ND
NY
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
TX
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 19 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+64%

Still filing today

68%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
AnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • BA
    BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +56%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $210k · revenue +31%
  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $114k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • NV
    NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -89%
  • BA
    BAYWATER ANIMAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AL
    ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +29%
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
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals
2
Raskels Rescue
Animals
3
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

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.

Animals
4
Baby Gunns Animal Rescue
Animals
5
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
6
Runaways Animal Rescue
Animals
7
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
8
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
9
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
10
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
11
Animal Rescuers Without Borders

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.

Animals
12
Society for Animal Rescue and Adoption

Operate true "no-kill" animal sanctuary which provides rehabilitation to abused or abandoned domestic and factory farm animals on its 120 acre preserve.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Humane Society of Baltimore County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $326,250 · AnimalsBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCSBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $210,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $113,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INCWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $102,000 · AnimalsWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETYTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $85,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INCWORLD VETS: $80,000 · AnimalsWORLD VETSDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $54,000 · AnimalsHART FOR ANIMALS INC: $50,000 · Animals+10 more: $110,500 · Animals+10 moreAFRICAN WILDFIRE FOUNDATION: $51,500 · OtherAFRICAN WILDF…KAREN BARLEY SEA TURTLE RESCUE: $40,000 · OtherKAREN BARLEY …Individual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherIndividual gr…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual gr…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRI…SHELDRICK ELEPHANT TRUST: $10,000 · OtherSHELDRICK ELE…+2 more: $8,000 · OtherIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $2,500 · Environment
Animals$1,131,250Other$157,000Environment$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE ANIMAL RESCUE AND CARE SHELTER BARCS: $326,250 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $210,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BALTIMORE COUNTY INC: $113,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $102,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF DORCHESTER COUNTY INC: $85,000 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetWORLD VETS: $80,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetDAYS END FARM HORSE RESCUE INC: $54,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHART FOR ANIMALS INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPETS FOR PATRIOTS INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOATS OF ANARCHY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDFW Pug Rescue Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPAW WARRIORS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetIRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS TIGERS AND BEARS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 NORTH VALLEY ANIMAL DISASTER GROUP ↗
  • Who funds PUG RESCUE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds DFW Pug Rescue Club Inc ↗
  • Who funds PAW WARRIORS INC ↗
  • Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LIONS TIGERS AND BEARS ↗

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.

Greater Good CharitiesAbbVie FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Network for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Verizon FoundationT Rowe Price Program …The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
Greater Good CharitiesWA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Good Charities · AbbVie Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Verizon Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Nancy Sherertz Family Foundation Inc 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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