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The Sherrill Foundation at a glance

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The Sherrill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$219kArts & Culture$147kRecreation & Sports$124kAnimals$59kHuman Services$36kHealth$29kYouth Development$17kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION$30,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$18,000
THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$12,500
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$10,000
THE BRICK CHURCH SCHOOL$6,500
BARD GRADUATE CENTER$6,000
MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC$6,000
ST BERNARDS SCHOOL$5,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY$5,000
NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN$3,500
GROTON SCHOOL$3,000
CHAPIN SCHOOL$2,500
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC$2,500
SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC$2,500
KIPS BAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC$1,260
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 (FY18–19, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $15k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $15k → 17%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$605k · 20 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$605k
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+10%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $142k · revenue +154%
  • THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +112%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN
    5× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue -45%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • TE
    THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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.

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Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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2
Manhattanville University

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

Education
3
School in the Square Public Charter School

School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…

Education
4
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
6
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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7
Lycee Francais De New York

"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…

Education
8
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Episcopal School in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Aml Charitable Foundation. 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

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 38 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
21/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' AS…THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE IN…FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST S…SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC+4 more: $14,500 · Arts & Culture+4 moreNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $52,750 · EducationNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTE…ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGECHAPIN SCHOOL: $20,600 · EducationCHAPIN SCHOOLMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL IN…HARLEM ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYGROTON SCHOOL: $8,000 · Education+1 more: $3,000 · EducationCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $141,500 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVA…+1 more: $4,650 · Recreation & SportsBARD GRADUATE CENTER: $51,000 · OtherBARD GRADUATE CENTERMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERI…THE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE: $25,000 · OtherTHE EAST HARLEM SCHOOL…THE BRICK CHURCH SCHOOL: $16,000 · OtherTHE BRICK CHURCH SCHOO…AML CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherAML CHARITABLE FOUNDAT…NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $10,000 · OtherNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN …+7 more: $10,380 · Other+7 moreTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $42,500 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL …Wildlife Conservation Society: $33,500 · AnimalsWildlife Co…+1 more: $500 · AnimalsLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $10,260 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $3,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$184,500Education$154,350Recreation & Sports$146,150Other$147,380Animals$76,500Human Services$30,000Youth Development$18,260

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $141,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $52,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $33,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetST BERNARD'S SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPIN SCHOOL: $20,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $10,260 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $4,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE ASSUMPTION FAMILY HEALTH SERVICE INC: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDECORATORS CLUB EDUCATION FUND INC: $800 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM: $200 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.

The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sherrill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sherrill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Sherrill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sherrill Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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