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Sherwood Country Club Charitable

Thousand Oaks, CA · EIN 36-4766803. Reported 153 grants totalling $4,053,043 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

54organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$4,053,043granted, 2020-2023
91%of grantees funded again the next year
8%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Sherwood Country Club Charitable, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 8% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 91% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

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.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
2 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
73 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
34 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
25 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Interface Children Family ServicesCamarillo, CA$310,850442023
Foodshare IncOxnard, CA$250,000442023
Westminster Free ClinicThousand Oaks, CA$250,000442023
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard & Port HuenemeOxnard, CA$247,739442023
Young Mens Christian Association of Southeast Ventura CountyThousand Oaks, CA$180,000442023
Conejo Free ClinicThousand Oaks, CA$170,000442023
Many Mansions a California Non Profit CorporationThousand Oaks, CA$161,883332023
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley IncWestlake Vlg, CA$161,000332023
James Storehouse IncorporatedNewbury Park, CA$132,821332023
CASA Pacifica Centers for Children and FamiliesCamarillo, CA$126,500222023
Harbor HouseThousand Oaks, CA$124,000442023
Coalition for Family HarmonyOxnard, CA$120,000442023
Conejo Valley Senior ConcernsThousand Oaks, CA$115,000442023
Ride on L aChatsworth, CA$115,000332023
West Valley Boys & Girls ClubCanoga Park, CA$113,090442023
Boys & Girls Club of CamarilloCamarillo, CA$110,000442023
Aurelia FoundationSanta Monica, CA$93,000442023
Gold Coast Veterans FoundationCamarillo, CA$87,215222023
CASA of Ventura County IncCamarillo, CA$87,142442023
Safe Passage Youth FoundationThousand Oaks, CA$78,328332023
United Way of Ventura County IncVentura, CA$75,000442023
NAMI-Ventura CountyCamarillo, CA$74,000442023
Als NetworkWoodland Hls, CA$60,000222021
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing ProjectOxnard, CA$55,000222023
Turning Point FoundationVentura, CA$51,000222021
Habitat for Humanity International IncOxnard, CA$50,000442023
Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation IncVentura, CA$50,000332023
Assistance League of Conejo ValleyThousand Oaks, CA$40,000442023
Bumblebee Foundation IncWestlake Vlg, CA$40,000442023
Dragg IncOxnard, CA$40,000442023
Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse AssociationVentura, CA$40,000442023
Outreach Alliance of Ventura CountyVentura, CA$40,000222023
Conejo Hospice IncThousand Oaks, CA$38,000442023
My Stuff Bags FoundationWestlake Vlg, CA$38,000442023
Area Christians Taking Initiativeon NeedsCamarillo, CA$33,000442023
Lutheran Social Services of Southern CaliforniaOrange, CA$33,000222023
American National Red CrossWashington, DC$30,000332022
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County IncCamarillo, CA$30,000332023
Cancer Support Community Valley- Ventura-Santa Barbara IncWestlake Vlg, CA$30,000332023
Step Up Ventura IncVentura, CA$23,000222022
Momentum AgenciesChatsworth, CA$20,000112023
Project Understanding of San BuenaventuraVentura, CA$20,000112020
Samaritan Center-Simi ValleySimi Valley, CA$20,000222023
Make a Wish Foundation of Central Coast and Southern Central ValleyCamarillo, CA$15,000112020
Coastlands FoundationVentura, CA$12,000222023
Art Trek IncNewbury Park, CA$10,000222023
Manna Conejo Valley Food Distribution Center IncThousand Oaks, CA$10,000112022
Raisinghope IncThousand Oaks, CA$10,000112023
The Scga FoundationStudio City, CA$7,500222023
Childrens Burn FoundationSherman Oaks, CA$5,000112023
Conejo Community OutreachNewbury Park, CA$5,000112023
New West Symphony AssociationThousand Oaks, CA$5,000112023
Ventura County Medical Resource FoundationVentura, CA$5,000112020
Nyeland PromiseOxnard, CA$4,975112023

44 of 54 (81%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
15 orgs
Health Care
7 orgs
Crime & Legal
4 orgs
Housing & Shelter
3 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 orgs
Community Improvement
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Youth Development
2 orgs

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202033$602,000$15,000
202134$779,108$20,000
202240$1,059,559$20,000
202346$1,612,376$20,000

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.

California
$4.0M
District of Columbia
$30K

Down to the city

Thousand Oaks, CA
$1.2M
Camarillo, CA
$874K
Oxnard, CA
$768K
Ventura, CA
$316K
Westlake Vlg, CA
$269K
Newbury Park, CA
$148K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund34 shared recipientsConrad N Hilton Foundation34 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc31 shared recipientsVentura County Community Foundation29 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc24 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc22 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 46 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.

EIN 36-4766803 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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