Rhode Island · Private foundation
The Sharpe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2023
- 45
- Grants FY2023
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Sharpe Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Sharpe Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $315,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 86
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 11
- Total assets, FY2023
- $8.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations The Sharpe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.2M | 5% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $484k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $619k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $892k | 5% |
| FY2017 | 86 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $560,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Concord Academy | $490,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ceres Inc | $450,500 | 7 | 0% |
| South Kent School Corporation | $330,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Frenchman Bay Conservancy | $278,500 | 7 | 6% |
| Abbe Museum | $249,000 | 7 | 10% |
| The Fenn School | $230,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Lowell Community Health Center Inc | $208,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Rhode Island School of Design | $205,000 | 2 | 0% |
| UTEC Inc | $162,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 79 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sharpe Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 74 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Champlin Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · The Sand Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sharpe Family Foundation
- How much does The Sharpe Family Foundation give?
- The Sharpe Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $1,500,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 86 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sharpe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (77%), Environment (9%), Education (5%).
- Who are The Sharpe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Land Trust Alliance Inc ($560k), Concord Academy ($490k), Ceres Inc ($451k).
- Does The Sharpe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sharpe Family Foundation 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 The Sharpe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Champlin Foundation, Amica Companies Foundation, The Rhode Island Community Foundation.
- Where is The Sharpe Family Foundation based?
- The Sharpe Family Foundation is based in RI.
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