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The Scherman Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
130
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$8.0MEnvironment$5.6MArts & Culture$5.4MPhilanthropy$4.8MPublic Benefit$4.0MCommunity Improvement$2.5MCrime & Legal$1.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 130 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $412k
  • $50k–250k73 grants · $6.2M
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDES FOUNDATION$225,000
IN OUR OWN VOICE NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE$200,000
ARABELLA ADVISORS' WINDWARD FUND$200,000
UNITED WAY OF NYC$200,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION$150,000
STATE VOICES$150,000
BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE$150,000
NEW YORK FOUNDATION$150,000
NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE$125,000
NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS$125,000
NORTHWEST BRONX COMMUNITY AND CLERGY COALITION$110,000
ALIGN$100,000
NORTH STAR FUND$100,000
PUBLIC POLICY AND EDUCATION FUND OF NEW YORK$100,000
SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE$100,000
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 (FY19–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $150k → 14%BOLD FUTURES: $60k → 14%NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS: $125k → 14%BOLD FUTURES: $45k → 14%SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 13%SISTERSONG WOMEN OF COLOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE COLLECTIVE: $100k → 13%BRONXWORKS: $200 → 28%SISTERSONG INC: $50k → 13%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $240 → 14%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $100 → 10%HOUR CHILDREN: $154 → 13%HOUR CHILDREN: $100 → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $100k → 13%JUSTICE FOR FAMILIES: $50 → 28%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $60k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $40k → 13%MINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION: $1k → 13%POSSIBILITY LABS: $5k → 10%POSSIBILITY LABS: $5k → 10%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $100 → 20%WOMEN EMPOWERMENT COALITION OF NYC: $95 → 20%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $102k → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $102k → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $102k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $40k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $134 → 20%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $95k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $95k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $95k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $80k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $60k → 17%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $45k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $25k → 17%PEOPLE IN NEED: $3k → 20%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $80k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $45k → 17%NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $45k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $45k → 17%THE NEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $40k → 17%DOCUMENTED: $40k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $100 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%NEW YORK STATE YOUTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL: $100 → 17%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

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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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$31M · 194 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

194 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

194
114

Total granted

$31M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+16%

Still filing today

88%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $718k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NY
    NEW YORK FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
  • NY
    New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc
    4× · 2019–2023 · $675k · revenue +74%
  • PM
    PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND
    3× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $225k
  • NC
    NATURAL CAPITALISM SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2019 · $132k
  • AO
    ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRESNEW YORK (ARTNEW YORK)
    one grant, 2019 · $130k

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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
New York Restoration Project

New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…

Environment
3
The Bronx Council On the Arts Incorporated

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture
4
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
5
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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6
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…

Environment
7
Theatre of the Oppressed Nyc Inc

Tonyc works through partnerships with social service organizations and city agencies to create theatre troupes with community members who face pressing social, economic, health, and human rights injustices.

Arts & Culture
8
Design Trust for Public Space Inc

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Our projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact -…

Environment
9
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
10
Van Alen Institute Projects in Public Architecture

Van alen institute helps create equitable cities through community-led inclusive design.

Arts & Culture
11
National Council of Jewish Women New York Section

Ncjw ny turns progressive ideals into action, impacting 8,000 new yorkers annually: we provide direct services to support and empower our neighbors in need today - people from all walks of life and all racial and religious backgrounds.…

Community Improvement
12
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bang Group 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 backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsJewish Community Organizati…Women & Girls Leadership De…Animal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsLgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyDance Arts Organizations
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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%2/277
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,483

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

273 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. 273 of the 332 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)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
270/273
Grantees still filing
176/273
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW YORK FOUNDATION — $1,282,000 · OtherNEW YORK FOUNDATIONNew York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc — $675,250 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NYC — $665,000 · OtherIN OUR OWN VOICE NATIONAL BLACK WOMEN'S REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE AGENDA — $570,000 · Other+91 more — $12,983,672 · Other+91 moreSTATE VOICES — $575,000 · Civil RightsSTATE VOICESBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BU…URGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY — $345,400 · Civil RightsURGE UNITE FOR …NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM — $260,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL ASIAN …ADVOCACY INSTITUTE INC — $250,157 · Civil RightsPROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC — $235,000 · Civil RightsRIDERS ALLIANCE FUND INC — $235,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $200,250 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $200,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE — $195,000 · Civil RightsPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $195,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $185,000 · Civil RightsBrandworkers International Inc — $181,004 · Civil RightsPhysicians For Reproductive Health — $175,000 · Civil RightsNEW IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT INC — $175,000 · Civil Rights+8 more — $765,406 · Civil Rights+8 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $375,400 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FU…NEW YORK CITY ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC — $285,250 · EnvironmentNEW YORK CITY …CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $270,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE JUSTIC…ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $260,805 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL …CLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $225,000 · Environment350ORG — $225,000 · EnvironmentTRI-STATE TRANSPORTATION CAMPAIGN INC — $220,000 · EnvironmentAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $210,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC — $210,000 · EnvironmentSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND — $200,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE — $190,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $180,000 · EnvironmentRainforest Action Network — $180,000 · Environment+12 more — $1,411,045 · Environment+12 moreMOVEMENT RESEARCH INC — $375,000 · Arts & CultureMOVEMENT RE…OPERA AMERICA INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA AMERI…PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC — $235,000 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS…ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC — $170,000 · Arts & CulturePREGONES PUERTO RICAN TRAVELING THEATER INC — $155,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS COUNCIL INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK LIVE ARTS INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $125,000 · Arts & Culture+22 more — $1,901,694 · Arts & Culture+22 moreAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC — $470,000 · Human ServicesCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION — $306,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR NEW AMERICANS — $275,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $255,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $201,036 · Human ServicesRED HOOK INITIATIVE — $140,134 · Human ServicesBOLD FUTURES NM — $105,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $100,100 · Human ServicesPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND — $600,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $564,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $550,000 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST — $200,000 · PhilanthropyNEW ECONOMY PROJECT INC — $451,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc — $450,000 · Community ImprovementGOOD OLD LOWER EAST SIDE INC — $210,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC — $170,000 · Community ImprovementPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $150,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $110,000 · Community ImprovementDRUM Desis Rising Up and Moving Inc — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $75,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $75,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$16,175,922Civil Rights$4,862,217Environment$4,642,500Arts & Culture$3,676,694Human Services$2,102,270Philanthropy$1,914,000Community Improvement$1,891,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $550,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $410,870 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $375,400 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetCLIMATE AND CLEAN ENERGY EQUITY FUND — $225,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget350ORG — $225,000 over 4y, 0.5% 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 budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $200,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSUNRISE MOVEMENT EDUCATION FUND — $200,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $200,000 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.

Mertz Gilmore Foundat…The Ford FoundationLily Auchincloss Foun…New York Women's Foun…New York FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…The New York Communit…The Howard Gilman Fou…Brooklyn Community Fo…Surdna Foundation IncBooth Ferris Foundati…The Overbrook Foundat…
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

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 Scherman 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance — 39% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • American Littoral Society — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
57report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

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.

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 332 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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