South Carolina · Private foundation
The Sherman Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $65k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations The Sherman Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 18 | $65k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $63k | 53% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $65k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $56k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $70k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $71k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $76k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Synagogue Emanu-El | $25,000 | 4 | n/a |
| International African American Museum | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lowcountry Food Bank Inc | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| College of Charleston Foundation | $23,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Trident Literacy Association Inc | $17,500 | 2 | 2% |
| Chabad of Charleston Inc | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Jcc Housing Corporation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Addlestone Hebrew Academy | $14,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Florida State University | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Touro Infirmary Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sherman Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Trident United Way · The Leon Levine Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Cohen Family Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Oscar and Mona Sokol Foundation · Bill Jennie & Harry Ackerman Foundation Trust · Sol and Celia Cohen Endowment Fund · Jewish Endowment Foundation of South Carolina
How this is measured
Compare The Sherman Family Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About The Sherman Family Charitable Trust
- How much does The Sherman Family Charitable Trust give?
- The Sherman Family Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $65,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sherman Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Religion (12%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are The Sherman Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Synagogue Emanu-El ($25k), International African American Museum ($25k), Lowcountry Food Bank Inc ($25k).
- Does The Sherman Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sherman Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sherman Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, The Joanna Foundation.
- Where is The Sherman Family Charitable Trust based?
- The Sherman Family Charitable Trust is based in SC.
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