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The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family 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.

$996k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$301k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$971kArts & Culture$733kHealth$580kRecreation & Sports$177kEnvironment$155kPhilanthropy$136kYouth Development$88kHuman Services$21kInternational$18kOther$797k
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $370k
  • $250k+1 grant · $301k
$10,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$301,210
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$120,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$100,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$50,000
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA$32,211
RIVERSIDE THEATER$31,250
DUKE UNIVERSITY$26,000
ULTIMATE IMPACT$25,000
JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION$25,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$25,000
CITYSQUASH$25,000
TUFTS UNIVERSITY$20,000
VNA & HOSPICE FOUNDATION$17,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIVER HOUSE ADULT DAY CTR: $250 → 9%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $15k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $100 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 26 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
37

Total granted

$2.8M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+4%

Still filing today

85%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $582k · revenue +718%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +30%
  • CS
    City Squash Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $177k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • CH
    Camp Haven Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
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
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Misfit Resq Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Development CentersCommunity Arts CentersElementary Literacy TutoringWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%25%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%47%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,500

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
39/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $275,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIV…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $196,795 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $166,668 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE …DUKE UNIVERSITY — $130,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNew York University — $100,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTrustees of Tufts College — $100,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College+5 more — $3,030 · EducationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $540,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPO…CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $95,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONVNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc — $55,850 · OtherVNA Hospice of Indian River …JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $53,327 · OtherJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERV…Ultimate Impact Inc — $65,000 · OtherUltimate Impact Inc+38 more — $114,916 · Other+38 moreVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $581,818 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF A…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $139,516 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC+4 more — $11,511 · Arts & CultureDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $275,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cance…Children's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 · HealthChildren's Hospit…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $82,211 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOO…+8 more — $22,500 · HealthCity Squash Inc — $177,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $100 · Recreation & SportsINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $155,000 · Environment+1 more — $250 · EnvironmentTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · PhilanthropySCARSDALE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 · Philanthropy+1 more — $800 · Philanthropy
Education$971,493Other$924,093Arts & Culture$732,845Health$579,711Recreation & Sports$177,100Environment$155,250Philanthropy$136,050

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $581,818 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $196,795 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc — $177,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $166,668 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $155,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $139,516 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $82,211 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc — $65,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetVNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc — $55,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC — $53,327 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSCARSDALE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC — $17,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLarchmont Friends Of The Family — $6,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetIMPACT 100 OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — $5,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Haven Inc — $5,182 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHINEBECK PARK FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA MORE BALANCED WORLD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC — $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $530 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $261 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE — $259 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LITERARY SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for Education in Honduras — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Indian River Communit…The Berghorst Foundat…Archie S Wingfield Jr…The George a Long Fou…The Carwill FoundationThe John's Island Fou…Bailey Family Foundat…The Prentice Foundati…Higgs Family Foundati…Shoemate Foundation d…The Curley FoundationThe McCord Family Fou…
Indian River Community Foundation IncFL21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indian River Community Foundation Inc · The Berghorst Foundation Inc · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The George a Long Foundation · The Carwill Foundation · The John's Island Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Higgs Family Foundation · Shoemate Foundation dtd 102901 · The Curley Foundation · The McCord Family Foundation Inc

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 Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
14report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines