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The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$886k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.0MArts & Culture$923kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kRecreation & Sports$2kReligion$2kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
$35,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$120,000
LOYOLA BLAKEFIELD$110,000
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL$110,000
ST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY$60,000
EVERYMAN THEATRE$50,000
SAINT ELIZABETH SCHOOL$39,000
GILMAN SCHOOL$36,000
ROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL$35,000
NOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL$35,000
CALVERT SCHOOL$35,000
THE ST PAUL'S SCHOOLS$35,000
THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND$35,000
MCDONOGH SCHOOL$35,000
GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL$35,000
THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE$35,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY: $250 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 17 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$2.5M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+28%

Still filing today

71%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • BS
    BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $240k · revenue +49%
  • TP
    THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +20%
  • GS
    GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $168k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • MS
    MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $110k
  • MP
    MARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $110k
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.

1
Bullis School

Bullis school provides a student-centered balanced experience in academics, arts, athletics and community service. bullis uniquely prepares all students to become caring citizens and creative, critical thinkers who will thrive in…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
4
The Branson School

To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.

Education
5
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
6
Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…

—
7
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
The Waldorf School of Baltimore Inc

The waldorf school of baltimore educates and inspires children to think, act, and feel with depth, imagination, and purpose.

—
9
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
10
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Park School of Baltimore Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cockeysville Volunteer Fire Company. 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 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
24/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $250,000 · OtherWALTERS ART MUSEUMLOYOLA BLAKEFIELD: $210,000 · OtherLOYOLA BLAKEFIELDNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $155,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME PREPARATORY SCHOOLTHE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INC: $155,000 · OtherTHE ST PAULS SCHOOLS INCTHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherTHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOLST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY: $115,986 · OtherST IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMYMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · OtherMOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL INCMARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherMARYVALE PREPARATORY SCHOOLMERCY HIGH SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherMERCY HIGH SCHOOLARCHBISHOP CURLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $100,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $90,000 · Other+14 more: $254,850 · Other+14 moreTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $170,000 · EducationTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INCGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $167,900 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATEDROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $165,350 · EducationROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INCGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $165,000 · EducationGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INCTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $160,000 · EducationTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INCFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $160,000 · EducationFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INCMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $155,000 · EducationMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATEDCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $155,000 · EducationCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATEDTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · EducationBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $240,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE SYMPHONY …EVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureEVERYMAN THEATRE IN…BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF…B&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM…CENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER STAGE ASSOCI…THE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $33,199 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureRUBICON PRODUCTIONS INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $3,750 · Food & NutritionAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,250 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $250 · Human ServicesBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,500 · HealthEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $750 · Youth Development
Other$1,910,836Education$1,348,250Arts & Culture$673,199Food & Nutrition$3,750Human Services$3,500Health$1,500Youth Development$750

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 budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $240,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $167,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROLAND PARK COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $165,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC: $160,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYMAN THEATRE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetB&O RAILROAD MUSEUM INC: $60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER STAGE ASSOCIATES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN VISIONARY ART MUSEUM INC: $33,199 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRUBICON PRODUCTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALTIMORE CHORAL ARTS SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLoyola University Maryland Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARYLAND PHILANTHROPY NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST FRUITS FARM INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPERIENCE CAMPS: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOCKEYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $250 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.

Baltimore Community F…France-Merrick Founda…T Rowe Price Program …The United Way of Cen…The Marion I & Henry …Middendorf Foundation…Edward St John Founda…Campbell Foundation I…The Thomas F & Clemen…Dr Frank C Marino Fou…The Bunting Family Fo…Annie E Casey Foundat…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD50.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc · Campbell Foundation Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · Dr Frank C Marino Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc

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 Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
  • First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • Everyman Theatre Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
  • B&o Railroad Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Center Stage Associates Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The American Visionary Art Museum Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Maryland Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mcdonogh School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Thomas B and Elizabeth M Sheridan 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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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