Maine · Private foundation
The Sherman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $84k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $167k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations The Sherman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $84k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $87k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $78k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $75k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $112k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $124k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $94k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayside Food Programs | $90,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Preble Street | $86,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute | $85,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $77,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Portland Adult Education | $75,000 | 6 | 9% |
| The Telling Room | $32,500 | 9 | 1% |
| My Place Teen Center Inc | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Campfire Institute Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Sweetser | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc | $16,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($252k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sherman Family Foundation 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Smith Family Charitable Ta · Vincent B and Barbara G Welch Supporting Organization · United Way Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Karen Anne Bollwerk Burke and William a Burke Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About The Sherman Family Foundation
- How much does The Sherman Family Foundation give?
- The Sherman Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sherman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (22%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Education (18%).
- Who are The Sherman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wayside Food Programs ($90k), Preble Street ($86k), Gulf of Maine Research Institute ($85k).
- Does The Sherman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sherman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sherman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Sherman Family Foundation based?
- The Sherman Family Foundation is based in ME.
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