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Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $91k
$12,629
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION$37,232
TURNING POINT USA INC$21,166
PATHWAYS INC$20,000
MITCHELL'S PLACE INC$12,629
QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$8,385
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,812
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$7,142
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ATLANTA MISSION: $2k → 13%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $9k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $1k → 16%THE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP: $100 → 16%PATHWAYS INC: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$292k · 10 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$292k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+15%

Still filing today

60%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2019 · $55k · revenue +70%
  • AU
    ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +21%
  • TM
    The Monday Morning Quarterback Club
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB OF BIRMINGHAM
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • MA
    METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -5%
  • SJ
    ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alabama Partnership for Children

To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.

Education
2
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
3
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
8
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
9
Morehouse School of Medicine

Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…

Education
10
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

—
11
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
12
Medical Center of Central Georgia Inc

To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Restoration Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $75,449 · OtherST LUKE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHMAYO CLINIC: $65,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICTURNING POINT USA INC: $21,166 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCThe Monday Morning Quarterback Club: $20,000 · OtherThe Monday Morning Quarterback ClubCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT: $18,300 · OtherCATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT+8 more: $19,425 · Other+8 moreATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION: $39,232 · Human ServicesATLANTA UNION MISSI…PATHWAYS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS INCTHE CENTER FOR EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INC: $10,100 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR EXEC…UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBR…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,812 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY …+3 more: $2,500 · EducationMITCHELL'S PLACE INC: $12,629 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,142 · HealthMETRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $5,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $2,000 · HealthThe Children's Hospital of Alabama: $2,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · HealthQuarterbacking Children's Health Foundation: $8,385 · PhilanthropyVULCAN PARK FOUNDATION: $100 · Recreation & Sports
Other$219,340Human Services$69,332Education$65,312Health$30,771Philanthropy$8,385Recreation & Sports$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 L…Debardeleben Foundati…Altecstyslinger Found…The James Milton and …Hill Crest Foundation…The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Dunn-French FoundationThe Moulton Family Ch…Burton Family Foundat…Nall-Whatley Foundati…Jones Family Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles E and Katherine G Sharp Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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