· Private foundation
Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,033 |
| THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $600 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 26% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide quality education for grades kindergarten through high school,as well as providing auxiliary educational programs to the students to strengthen their overall learning experience.
Public Education.
The school provides students with the skills and knowledge needed to live and work effectively in the increasingly complex world. the school provides a safe challenging and independent environment.
To provide rich content and solid skills instruction in an environment that champions character and personal academic achievement. carbon valley provides a public eduction to students preschool through grade 8.
The mission of Snowy Range Academy is to offer an academically rigorous content-rich integrated educational program grounded in a common foundation and sequence of study. Snowy Range Academy will practice excellence and fairness in…
To provide education to students in kindergarten through eighth grade in the sonoma community.
Public Education.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
Public Education.
To challenge students to think creatively, act compassionately, and live courageously.
Valley christian school exists to partner with christian families who desire educational excellence, taught through a biblical worldview, so their children will be prepared for a lifetime of faithfulness and service to jesus christ.
To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Community School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds Sun Valley Community School Inc ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Syringa Mountain School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.