Sherwood Country Club Charitable
Thousand Oaks, CA · EIN 36-4766803. Reported 201 grants totalling $5,632,748 to 57 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Sherwood Country Club Charitable, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
- How spread out its giving is. 57 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 92% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $40,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $115,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Interface Children Family Services | Camarillo, CA | $400,850 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Foodshare Inc | Oxnard, CA | $350,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Westminster Free Clinic | Thousand Oaks, CA | $345,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard & Port Hueneme | Oxnard, CA | $287,739 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Many Mansions a California Non Profit Corporation | Thousand Oaks, CA | $251,883 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley Inc | Westlake Vlg, CA | $240,830 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Conejo Free Clinic | Thousand Oaks, CA | $230,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Southeast Ventura County | Thousand Oaks, CA | $230,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| CASA Pacifica Centers for Children and Families | Camarillo, CA | $215,175 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ride on L a | Chatsworth, CA | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Coalition for Family Harmony | Oxnard, CA | $185,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| James Storehouse Incorporated | Newbury Park, CA | $167,821 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| West Valley Boys & Girls Club | Canoga Park, CA | $161,590 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Harbor House | Thousand Oaks, CA | $159,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Conejo Valley Senior Concerns | Thousand Oaks, CA | $156,500 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Gold Coast Veterans Foundation | Camarillo, CA | $145,915 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Safe Passage Youth Foundation | Thousand Oaks, CA | $138,328 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo | Camarillo, CA | $135,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Aurelia Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $118,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| CASA of Ventura County Inc | Camarillo, CA | $107,142 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| NAMI-Ventura County | Camarillo, CA | $99,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| United Way of Ventura County Inc | Ventura, CA | $95,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project | Oxnard, CA | $85,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Turning Point Foundation | Ventura, CA | $76,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation Inc | Ventura, CA | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Oxnard, CA | $65,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Als Network | Woodland Hls, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Outreach Alliance of Ventura County | Ventura, CA | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Assistance League of Conejo Valley | Thousand Oaks, CA | $52,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Bumblebee Foundation Inc | Westlake Vlg, CA | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Dragg Inc | Oxnard, CA | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association | Ventura, CA | $50,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ventura County Community Foundation | Camarillo, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Conejo Hospice Inc | Thousand Oaks, CA | $48,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| My Stuff Bags Foundation | Westlake Vlg, CA | $48,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Momentum Agencies | Chatsworth, CA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community Valley- Ventura-Santa Barbara Inc | Westlake Vlg, CA | $42,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County Inc | Camarillo, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project Understanding of San Buenaventura | Ventura, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Samaritan Center-Simi Valley | Simi Valley, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Area Christians Taking Initiativeon Needs | Camarillo, CA | $33,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lutheran Social Services of Southern California | Orange, CA | $33,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American National Red Cross | Washington, DC | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Step Up Ventura Inc | Ventura, CA | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Coastlands Foundation | Ventura, CA | $17,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Art Trek Inc | Newbury Park, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Make a Wish Foundation of Central Coast and Southern Central Valley | Camarillo, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Conejo Community Outreach | Newbury Park, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Nyeland Promise | Oxnard, CA | $10,975 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Childrens Burn Foundation | Sherman Oaks, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Manna Conejo Valley Food Distribution Center Inc | Thousand Oaks, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| New West Symphony Association | Thousand Oaks, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Raisinghope Inc | Thousand Oaks, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Scga Foundation | Studio City, CA | $10,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Recovery Shot | Ventura, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation | Ventura, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Childhood Matters | Newbury Park, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
50 of 57 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 49 of 57 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 33 | $602,000 | $15,000 |
| 2021 | 34 | $779,108 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 40 | $1,059,559 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 46 | $1,612,376 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 48 | $1,579,705 | $22,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
5 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 10 grants totalling $140,006 to Sherwood Country Club Charitable. That is 31% of the 16 funders we can see giving to it. Those 5 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George and Cindy Rusu Family Found | Pennsylvania | $130,001 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sandel Family Foundation | New York | $5,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Bergelectric Charitable Foundation | California | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| L & G Thomas Family Foundation | California | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $5 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Sherwood Country Club Charitable's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 320 W Stafford Road, Thousand Oaks, CA, 91361.
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