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The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2026still arriving
54
Grants FY2026still arriving
13
States reached
$482k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$972kArts & Culture$733kYouth Development$265kEnvironment$155kPhilanthropy$139kHuman Services$59kInternational$23kOther$0
02FY2026 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k31 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $777k
  • $250k+1 grant · $482k
$3,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART$482,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$240,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$225,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$100,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
CITYSQUASH$61,592
NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$50,000
RIVERSIDE THEATER$40,000
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$35,000
NEW YORK JUNIOR TENNIS LEAGUE$31,100
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$31,049
DUKE UNIVERSITY$26,000
JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION$25,000
ULTIMATE IMPACT$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH EAST AND NORTH FLORIDA$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%YOUTH GUIDANCE MENTORING ACADEMY: $5k → 12%GIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER: $250 → 12%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
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

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 35 repeat orgs$187k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
39

Total granted

$4.2M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+1%

Still filing today

77%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $1.1M · revenue +718%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    3× · 2024–2026 · $300k · revenue +13%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2022–2024 · $275k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • INDIAN RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2025 · $11k
  • CH
    Camp Haven Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +23%
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
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
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
3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
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
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

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
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
9
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
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indian River Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 104 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
52/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNI…New York University: $200,000 · EducationNew York UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $196,795 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY O…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $166,668 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $156,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTrustees of Tufts College: $120,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College+10 more: $14,058 · EducationVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,063,818 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART IN…RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $179,516 · Arts & CultureRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC+4 more: $42,560 · Arts & CultureMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $780,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORP…CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $68,792 · OtherJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SER…VNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc: $55,850 · OtherUltimate Impact Inc: $90,000 · OtherUltimate Impact Inc+51 more: $193,657 · Other+51 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $300,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $275,000 · HealthDana-Farber Canc…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $107,211 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $50,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYT…+13 more: $41,020 · HealthCity Squash Inc: $238,592 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $100 · Recreation & SportsINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $190,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,295 · EnvironmentTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · PhilanthropySCARSDALE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,250 · Philanthropy+1 more: $900 · Philanthropy
Education$1,353,521Arts & Culture$1,285,894Other$1,283,299Health$773,231Recreation & Sports$238,692Environment$191,295Philanthropy$176,150

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $1,063,818 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCity Squash Inc: $238,592 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $196,795 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $190,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC: $179,516 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $166,668 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $156,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $107,211 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUltimate Impact Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $68,792 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetVNA Hospice of Indian River County Inc: $55,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $41,049 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCARSDALE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $27,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $25,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY: $6,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLarchmont Friends Of The Family: $6,000 over 2y, 5.3% 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 budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC: $1,500 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 budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKIN CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $797 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $521 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN'S ISLAND EMPLOYEE RELIEF FUND FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $350 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 budgetGREENWICH ADULT DAY CARE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $250 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.

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.

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

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 Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ned and Emily Sherwood Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
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.

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 104 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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