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The Scherman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
130
Grants FY2024
126
Organizations funded FY2023
21%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$225,000
Organizations funded a year
105 to 142
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$112M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Scherman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving104$6.2M14%
FY2023126$6.9M21%
FY2022116$6.1M26%
FY2021142$5.4M41%
FY2020129$5.2M69%
FY2019105$4.7Mn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$8.0MEnvironment$5.6MArts & Culture$5.4MPhilanthropy$4.8MPublic Benefit$4.0MCommunity Improvement$2.5MCrime & Legal$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 268 grantees
All grantees of The Scherman Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New York Foundation$1,282,00066%
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc$675,25044%
Progressive Multiplier Fund$600,000317%
State Voices$575,00041%
In Our Own Voice National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda$570,00043%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$564,00040%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$500,00041%
African Communities Together Inc$470,00057%
New Economy Project Inc$451,00049%
Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc$450,00043%
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice$435,28453%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$422,25051%
Movement Research Inc$375,000314%
Make the Road New York$369,23560%
Urge Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity$345,40052%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$330,12551%
Center for Popular Democracy Inc$315,00040%
Creative Capital Foundation$306,00032%
Opera America Inc$300,00032%
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc$285,25055%
National Partnership for New Americans$275,00022%
Climate Justice Alliance$270,00032%
Align the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc$265,75058%
Environmental Advocates Ny Inc$260,80564%
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum$260,00041%
New York Women's Foundation Inc$255,00050%
Latinojustice Prldef$255,00032%
Advocacy Institute Inc$250,15738%
Sistersong Inc$250,00031%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd$245,19542%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$235,00031%
Progeorgia State Table Inc$235,00041%
Riders Alliance Fund Inc$235,00035%
350org$225,00040%
Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund$225,00011%
Tri-State Transportation Campaign Inc$220,00039%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network$210,00032%
Good Old Lower East Side Inc$210,00036%
Greenpeace Fund Inc$210,00030%
West Virginia Free Incorporated$205,000317%
Minkwon Center for Community Action Inc$201,03634%
Center for Constitutional Rights$200,25040%
Indigenous Environmental Network$200,00031%
Pennsylvania Voice$200,00033%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$200,00042%
Kentucky Coalition Inc$200,00033%
Advocates for Youth$200,00031%
Alliance for Justice$195,00031%
Pregnancy Justice Inc$195,00033%
Uprose Inc$190,500410%
Earthjustice$190,00030%
Community Voices Heard Inc$190,00033%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$190,00030%
New Voices Pittsburgh Inc$185,00034%
Brandworkers International Inc$181,004517%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$180,00030%
Rainforest Action Network$180,00031%
El Puente de Williamsburg Inc$180,00032%
Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development$175,40023%
New Immigrant Community Empowerment Inc$175,00035%
Physicians For Reproductive Health$175,00032%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$172,50030%
Chhaya Community Development Corporation$170,00033%
Community Development Project Inc$170,00031%
St Ann's Warehouse Inc$170,00041%
Communities Resist Inc$170,00032%
Medical Students for Choice$165,00038%
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence Inc$160,10043%
Sepa Mujer Inc$160,000312%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$157,00020%
Girls for Gender Equity Inc$155,05031%
Pregones Puerto Rican Traveling Theater Inc$155,00033%
Forward Together$150,00031%
California Latinas for Reproductive Justice$150,00039%
Brooklyn Arts Council Inc$150,00032%
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Inc$150,00033%
Power Interfaith Inc$150,0002n/a
Ifwhenhow$150,00021%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$150,00030%
Friends of the Earth$150,00030%
Earthworks$150,00031%
Red Hook Initiative$140,13431%
New York Live Arts Inc$140,00031%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$140,00034%
Lawyers Alliance for New York$130,75041%
Transportation Alternatives Inc$130,00031%
Long Island Progressive Coalition Inc$130,000213%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$130,00040%
Community Connections for Youth Inc$125,25042%
Multiplier$125,00010%
Katal Center for Equity Health and Justice Inc$125,00035%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc$125,00033%
The Bronx Museum of the Arts$125,00032%
Michigan Voices$125,00023%
Urban Green Council$125,0001n/a
Ceres Inc$121,04530%
Appalachian Voices$120,00021%
Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc$120,00030%
City Limits News Inc$120,00036%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$120,00022%
National Women's Health Network$115,00022%
Voices for a Sustainable Future$115,00026%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$115,00031%
Harlem Stage Inc$110,00042%
New York Shakespeare Festival$110,00050%
The Laundromat Project Inc$110,00023%
City Lore Inc$110,00041%
The National Black Theatre Workshop$110,00022%
Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc$110,00025%
Justice Committee Inc$105,85456%
Bold Futures Nm$105,00023%
The Flea Theater Inc$100,53524%
Great Small Works Inc$100,000326%
Government Accountability Project$100,00022%
Stand$100,00021%
Queens Council on the Arts Inc$100,00015%
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$100,00020%
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc$100,00031%
DRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc$100,00024%
Project on Government Oversight Inc$95,00021%
Fund for Constitutional Government$90,00021%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$90,00020%
Fifth Avenue Committee Inc$90,00021%
Taxpayers for Common Sense$90,00022%
Center for Traditional Music and Dance Inc$90,00042%
Philanthropy New York Inc$86,20061%
Jews for Racial & Economic Justice$85,30632%
State Democracy Project$85,000212%
Elevator Repair Service Theater Inc$80,00033%
Signature Theatre Company Inc$80,00030%
Community Funds Inc$80,0001n/a
Third Sector New England Inc$75,00020%
The Point Community Development Corporation$75,00012%
New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc$75,00012%
The Classical Theatre of Harlem Inc$75,00022%
Fair Fight Action Inc$75,00010%
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc$75,00023%
Issue One$75,00020%
Mothers Out Front Inc$75,00022%
Syracuse University$70,00020%
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc$65,00021%
MANHATTAN GRAPHICS CENTER INC DBA MGC Community Print Studio$60,00047%
The Performance Zone Inc$60,00021%
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance$60,00012%
Museum Hue Inc$60,00015%
Ethels Foundation for the Arts Inc$60,00034%
New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation$55,00010%
New Yorkers for Culture and Arts Inc$50,30530%
Sierra Club Foundation$50,00010%
The International Rhino Foundation$50,00012%
The New York Festival of Song Inc$50,00035%
People's Action Institute$50,00010%
One Fair Wage Inc$50,00011%
Cave Canem Foundation Inc$50,00013%
Florida Rising Together Inc$50,00010%
Unique Projects Inc$50,00015%
The Bronx Documentary Center$50,00014%
Movement Strategy Center$50,00010%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$47,06660%
Human Rights First$45,00010%
Atlantic Theater Company$45,00020%
Documented LTD$40,25022%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$40,00020%
Rewire News Group$40,00016%
The Wow Project Inc$40,00014%
The Center For Nuleadership On Urban Solutions Inc$40,00014%
Regional Plan Association Inc$35,10011%
American Littoral Society$35,00011%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$30,00021%
Funders for Reproductive Equity$25,65560%
Rocking the Boat Inc$25,00011%
New Georgia Project Inc$25,00010%
Chinese-American Planning Council Inc$25,00010%
Legal Services NYC$25,00010%
Pratt Institute$22,50050%
Neighborhood Funders Group$20,75050%
Open Channels New York Inc dba Dixon Place$20,20013%
The Symphony Space Inc$20,00010%
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York Inc$15,00010%
Nonprofit New York Inc$14,00040%
Candid$11,00020%
Rural Action Inc$10,00010%
Innovation Network for Communities Inc$10,00010%
Possibility Labs$10,00020%
Blacc Vanilla Community Foundation$10,0001n/a
Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy Inc$10,00010%
Everyday Democracy Inc$10,00020%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$10,00010%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp$8,59040%
Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc$7,50021%
Parent-Teacher Association of Psms 278 Inc$7,5002n/a
The Innocence Project Inc$5,00010%
Auburn Theological Seminary$5,00010%
Northeastern University$5,00010%
The Resurrection Project$5,00010%
Hartbeat Ensemble Inc$5,00011%
Grantmakers in the Arts$3,80060%
The Crane Institute of Sustainability Inc$3,75030%
New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc$3,30011%
Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc$3,02540%
Social Movement Technologies Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Impact Guild Inc$2,50013%
New York City Climbing Collective Incorporated$2,5001n/a
Givedirectly Inc$2,50010%
Just Vision Inc$2,50010%
People in Need Inc$2,50013%
The Humane League$2,50010%
The Young People's Chorus of New York City Inc$2,50010%
Encampment for Citizenship$2,50011%
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Inc$2,50010%
The Brooklyn Historical Society$2,00010%
Socrates Sculpture Park Inc$1,77920%
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club Inc$1,58640%
The League of Professional Theatre Women New York Inc$1,39521%
Riverside Language Program Inc$1,12230%
New York Public Interest Research Group Fund Inc$1,03010%
Community Resource Exchange Inc$1,03010%
Midwest Academy$1,00020%
Opencollective Foundation$1,00010%
Autistic Adults NYC Inc$1,00012%
Theater Labrador Inc dba New Georges$91220%
Center for Family Life in Sunset Park Inc$80630%
Advocates for Children of New York$75820%
The Bang Group Inc$50020%
Creative Arts Team Inc$50011%
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center$50010%
Brooklyn Technical High School Parent Association Inc$50010%
Forge Project Association$50010%
Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility Inc$40920%
Soho Think Tank Inc$35010%
Montello Foundation Inc$3502n/a
Target Margin Theater Inc$35020%
Concrete Temple Theatre$35020%
Jack Arts Inc$35020%
New American Leaders Inc$3002n/a
New York Preservation Archive Project Inc$3001n/a
Hour Children Inc$25420%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$25010%
Arts on Site NYC Inc$25010%
Common Cause Education Fund$25010%
Food Bank for New York City$25010%
Bronx River Alliance Inc$25010%
Citizen Action of New York Inc$24010%
Donorschooseorg$20010%
Project Hospitality Inc$20010%
Bronxworks Inc$20010%
Brooklyn Public Library$19110%
Alliance for Quality Education Inc$15510%
Center for Family Representation Inc$15010%
The Audre Lorde Project Inc$13520%
Whitney Museum of American Art$12610%
ACADEMY OF MEDICAL & PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES INC DBA RaisingHealth Partners$11010%
Christian Herald Association Inc$10010%
Arab American Association of Ny Inc$10010%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$1001n/a
Custom Collaborative Inc$10010%
New York State Youth Leadership Council Inc$10010%
Camba Inc$10010%
Henry Street Settlement$10010%
Southside United Housing Development Fund Corporation$10010%
Artichoke Dance Company Inc$10010%
Women Empowerment Coalition of NYC$951n/a
Leap Inc$5710%
Project Prosper$501n/a
First Nations Development Institute$5010%
Justice for Families Ltd$5010%
Sunset Spark Inc$5010%
En Garde Arts Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Scherman Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York Foundation: $1,282,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc: $675,250 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetProgressive Multiplier Fund: $600,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetState Voices: $575,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetIn Our Own Voice National Black Women's Reproductive Justice Agenda: $570,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $564,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBvm Capacity Building Institute Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAfrican Communities Together Inc: $470,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetNew Economy Project Inc: $451,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNational Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice: $435,284 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNew York Immigration Coalition Inc: $422,250 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMovement Research Inc: $375,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetMake the Road New York: $369,235 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUrge Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity: $345,400 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetVoices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc: $330,125 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $315,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCreative Capital Foundation: $306,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetOpera America Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetNew York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc: $285,250 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetNational Partnership for New Americans: $275,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetClimate Justice Alliance: $270,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetAlign the Alliance for a Greater New York Inc: $265,750 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetEnvironmental Advocates Ny Inc: $260,805 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNational Asian Pacific American Women's Forum: $260,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNew York Women's Foundation Inc: $255,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLatinojustice Prldef: $255,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAdvocacy Institute Inc: $250,157 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetSistersong Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetDemos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd: $245,195 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPlaywrights Horizons Inc: $235,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetProgeorgia State Table Inc: $235,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRiders Alliance Fund Inc: $235,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budget350org: $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetClimate and Clean Energy Equity Fund: $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTri-State Transportation Campaign Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network: $210,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGood Old Lower East Side Inc: $210,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetGreenpeace Fund Inc: $210,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWest Virginia Free Incorporated: $205,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetMinkwon Center for Community Action Inc: $201,036 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCenter for Constitutional Rights: $200,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPennsylvania Voice: $200,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSunrise Movement Education Fund: $200,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetKentucky Coalition Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAdvocates for Youth: $200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAlliance for Justice: $195,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Mertz Gilmore FoundationNY102.3× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mertz Gilmore Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Overbrook 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.

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How do I get to The Scherman Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Scherman 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.

About The Scherman Foundation Inc

How much does The Scherman Foundation Inc give?
The Scherman Foundation Inc reported 130 grants totaling $6,720,617 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 105 and 142 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Scherman Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (22%), Environment (15%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Scherman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: New York Foundation ($1.3M), New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ($675k), Progressive Multiplier Fund ($600k).
Does The Scherman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Scherman Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Scherman Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc.
Where is The Scherman Foundation Inc based?
The Scherman Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 332 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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