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RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION

RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$603
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$15k
Net assets
$10k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Rav Byron Sherwin Learning Center Foundation does

Mission

The Rav Byron Sherwin Learning Center Foundation is dedicated to perpetuating the legacy of professor byron l sherwin through sharing his writings and promopting new work in jewish ideas and intellectual history. Founded by rabbi sherwin's son jason and headed by historian and writer yitzchak schwartz, the sherwin center aims to create a leading forum for jewish intellectual history and thought.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Created a leading forum for jewish intellectual history & thought.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($17k) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2022 Revenue 154 ($26k) Expenses 2877 ($40k) Net assets 10 ($2k)2023 Revenue 45 ($8k) Expenses 408 ($6k) Net assets 25 ($4k)2024 Revenue 82 ($14k) Expenses 472 ($7k) Net assets 72 ($11k)2025 Revenue 4 ($603) Expenses 143 ($2k) Net assets 63 ($10k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (4)Expenses (143)Net assets (63)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16k to $2k (−90%).

$16k
$2k
$4k
$11k
$10k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’21
−$14k
’22
$2k
’23
$7k
’24
−$1k
’25
59
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'22
total
funders
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−231% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve59.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−57% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,242 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION?
RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,000 in grants to RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of RAV BYRON SHERWIN LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing