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Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc

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.

$545k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$3.0MHuman Services$689kAnimals$661kArts & Culture$146kInternational$78kCommunity Improvement$78kCrime & Legal$76kPhilanthropy$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $228k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$6,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JAMES PLACE$265,000
SERVICE DOGS INC$100,000
IN-SYNC EXOTICS$75,000
SALVATION ARMY$52,500
FOUNDATION OF THE CALLIER CENTER$10,000
DENISON FORUM$10,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
GLORY B$6,000
GOULD FARM$5,000
VOLUNTEER NOW$5,000
ESSELSTYN FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
VICKERY TRADING COMPANY$1,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY: $15k → 14%THE SM WRIGHT FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%JULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES: $3k → 14%DALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 14%CHANGE AGENT NETWORK: $18k → 14%CHANGE AGENT NETWORK: $10k → 14%THE FAMILY PLACE: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
MO
VA
DC
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 20 repeat orgs$679k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
77

Total granted

$4.5M
$664k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+21%

Still filing today

65%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • IE
    INSYNC EXOTIC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $640k · revenue +83%
  • TH
    TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $375k · revenue +44%
  • NF
    NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WJ
    WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC (ROADESIDE 20)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • OT
    ORCHARD THEATRE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE IN DALLAS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Downtown Dallas Inc

Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI), is the champion of a clean and safe Downtown and of the economic development and vibrancy of this community of diverse, unique neighborhoods. DDI: Mobilizes and amplifies the services of public agencies.…

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2
Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

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3
Downtown Dallas Inc Foundation

Downtown Dallas, Inc. Foundation is the charitable arm of Downtown Dallas, Inc. whose purpose is to help make the area in and around Downtown Dallas a more vibrant and livable place for both daytime and permanent residents by promoting the…

Community Improvement
4
Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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5
Dallas International University

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

Education
6
Dallas Contemporary

Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…

Arts & Culture
7
Dallas Regional Chamber

Together, with our business leaders and community partners, we will help lead the dallas region to become the best place in the united states for all people to live, work, and do business.

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8
Dallas Zoological Society

Support of the dallas zoo as an outstanding center of education, entertainment and wildlife conservation through fundraising, volunteerism, promoting public awareness and participation, and enhancing the visitor experience.

Animals
9
The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas dba Shakespeare Dallas

Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

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10
Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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11
Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion
12
Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dallas Children's Advocacy Center; the most unlike its peers is Saint James Place Inc. 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

60 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. 60 of the 100 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
45/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT JAMES PLACE INC: $2,859,000 · OtherSAINT JAMES PLACE INCTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $375,000 · OtherTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INCSALVATION ARMY: $185,000 · Other+72 more: $758,350 · Other+72 moreINSYNC EXOTIC INC: $640,000 · AnimalsINSYNC EXOTIC …+1 more: $1,000 · AnimalsCHANGE AGENT NETWORK INC ERIC WOWOH: $28,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind: $25,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $15,000 · Human ServicesDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $5,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Place: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesVolunteerNow: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $55,100 · Crime & LegalMILES OF FREEDOM: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $1,000 · Crime & LegalJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTexas Appleseed: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Other$4,177,350Animals$641,000Human Services$85,500Philanthropy$85,000Arts & Culture$72,500Crime & Legal$61,100Community Improvement$27,500

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 budgetSAINT JAMES PLACE INC: $2,859,000 over 8y, 93% of budgetINSYNC EXOTIC INC: $640,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetTEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC: $375,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetNEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE: $55,100 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVolunteerNow: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHANGE AGENT NETWORK INC ERIC WOWOH: $28,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHome for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetTEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GATEWAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF GREATER DALLAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WILLIAM J GOULD ASSOCIATES INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER DALLAS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS FURNITURE BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILES OF FREEDOM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR A PROSPEROUS AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Family Place: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Dallas Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER BILLS HELPING HAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVickery Trading Company Inc: $3,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDITH WHARTON RESTORATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPI BETA PHI FOUNDATION: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Appleseed: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUEST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUICIDE AND CRISIS CENTER OF NORTH TEXAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIETTE FOWLER COMMUNITIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fair Park Inc: $2,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds SAINT JAMES PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSYNC EXOTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS HEARING & SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW FRIENDS NEW LIFE ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds VolunteerNow ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE AGENT NETWORK INC ERIC WOWOH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
  • Who funds No One Left Behind ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF DALLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS TENNIS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
  • Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY GATEWAY INC ↗

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 Dallas FoundationCommunities Foundatio…Hillcrest FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…The Moody FoundationHegi Family FoundationTheodore and Beulah B…Roy and Christine Stu…United Way of Metropo…Perkins-Prothro Found…The Perot FoundationThe Eugene McDermott …
The Dallas FoundationTX38.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Hegi Family Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · The Perot Foundation · The Eugene McDermott 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 Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth C and Charles S Sharp Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Edith Wharton Restoration Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 100 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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