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Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$28kHealth$11kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,467
Median grant
1
States reached
$855k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION$6,467
THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL$594
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 22% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%The Sage School: $1k → 7%The Mayo Clinic: $10k → 9%Vermont Community Foundation: $1k → 9%Kelly Brush Foundation: $655 → 10%Syringa Mountain School: $1k → 7%Wood River Trails Coalition: $1k → 7%Sun Valley Youth Hockey: $7k → 7%SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $3k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $3k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $3k → 7%SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $3k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $2k → 7%Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation: $2k → 7%THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $600 → 7%The Community School: $598 → 7%THE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $594 → 7%The Community School: $500 → 7%The Community School: $500 → 7%The Community School: $500 → 7%The Community School: $500 → 7%The Community School: $500 → 7%The Community School: $87 → 7%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 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
White Pine Charter School

Public Education.

Education
2
Idaho Science & Technology Charter

Public Education.

Education
3
Summerfield Waldorf School and Farm

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.

Education
4
Sage Ridge School

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.

Education
5
Carbon Valley Academy

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.

Education
6
Compass Public Charter School

Public Education.

Education
7
Saklan Valley School

To challenge students to think creatively, act compassionately, and live courageously.

Education
8
Snowy Range Academy

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…

Education
9
The Village Charter School

Public Education.

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10
Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center

Public Education.

Education
11
Creekside Charter Management

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…

Education
12
Woodland Star Charter School

To provide education to students in kindergarten through eighth grade in the sonoma community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sun Valley Community School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $26,520 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICSUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsSUN VALLEY JUNIOR …WOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsWOOD RIVER TRAILS …THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $655 · Recreation & SportsTHE KELLY S BRUSH …Sun Valley Community School Inc: $4,379 · EducationSun Valley Co…Syringa Mountain School Inc: $1,000 · EducationSyringa Mount…THE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE SAGE SCHO…THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$26,520Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$8,655Education$6,379Philanthropy$1,000

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 budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $26,520 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY JUNIOR HOCKEY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSun Valley Community School Inc: $4,379 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSyringa Mountain School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD RIVER TRAILS COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAGE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC: $655 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.

Spur Community Founda…The Springcreek Found…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Spur Community Foundation IncID13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laura Sharpe Flood Foundation. 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%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 9 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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