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Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2025
$12,629
Largest grant, FY2025
$37,232
Organizations funded a year
1 to 20
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21
EducationRecreation & Sports
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$114k86%
FY20211$12k0%
FY20196$91k17%
FY20188$31k25%
FY201720$145kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$94kHealth$78kEducation$59kRecreation & Sports$20kHuman Services$18kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$2kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nebraska Foundation$55,00020%
Atlanta Union Mission Corporation$39,23220%
Turning Point USA Inc$21,16610%
Pathways Inc$20,0001n/a
The Monday Morning Quarterback Club$20,00023%
Cathedral Church of the Advent$18,3002n/a
Mitchell's Place Inc$12,62910%
The Center for Executive Leadership Inc$10,10030%
Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation$8,3851n/a
Prager University Foundation$7,81210%
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Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($151k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nebraska Foundation: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Union Mission Corporation: $39,232 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $21,166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMitchell's Place Inc: $12,629 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Center for Executive Leadership Inc: $10,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $7,812 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $7,142 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiwanis Club of Birmingham: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMetro Atlanta Recovery Residences Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Alabama Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $2,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProject Als Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornerstone Schools of Alabama Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPreschool Partners: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Restoration Academy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVulcan Park Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable FoundationAL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The James Milton and Sallie R Johnson Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Dunn-French Foundation · The Moulton Family Charitable Trust · Burton Family Foundation · Nall-Whatley Foundation · Jones Family Fund

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.

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About Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family

How much does Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family give?
Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family reported 7 grants totaling $114,366 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Health (28%), Education (21%).
Who are Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($55k), Atlanta Union Mission Corporation ($39k), Turning Point USA Inc ($21k).
Does Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert and Lois Luckie Charitable Foundation, Debardeleben Foundation Inc, Altecstyslinger Foundation.
Where is Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family based?
Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family is based in AL.

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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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