Nebraska · Nonprofit
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,032 to it, the largest being HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($83,032). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 55 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 55 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $83k → $60k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.2M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE SHERWOOD 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.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of the Midlandsshared funderslocalNE · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 115 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Becky and Bob Alexander Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Baker Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The CD Shiah Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig and Connie Thatcher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teget Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bf & Rose H Perkins Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tam Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roberts Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Donald E Nielsen Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE SHERWOOD 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION?
- THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION (Nebraska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,032 to it, the largest being HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($83,032). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $143,032 in grants to THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION?
- HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $83,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SHERWOOD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing