· Private foundation
Sagacity Sharp Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lotus Land | $1,454 |
| Various Contributions Under 1000 | $1,155 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| National Trust For Historic Preserv | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Marin Humane Society | $450 |
| Sam Mazza Foundation | $350 |
| KQED | $300 |
| No Kid Hungry | $250 |
| Farming Hope | $200 |
| SF Opera | $183 |
| Ritter Center | $175 |
| Island Cat Resources Adoption | $164 |
| San Francisco History Association | $103 |
| SF Marin Food Bank | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $425) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAllegrofuco3× · 2018–2020 · $8k
- VCVarious Contributions Under 10003× · 2023–2025 · $3k
- NTNational Trust For Historic Preserv4× · 2022–2025 · $2k
Funded once
- HSHistorical Societyone grant, 2019 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MFMARINE FIREMEN'S UNIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $750 · revenue +31%
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.
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.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Island Cat Resources and Adoption ↗
- Who funds MARINE FIREMEN'S UNION ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Sam Mazza Foundation ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds BELLOSGUARDO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds New Conservatory Theatre Center ↗
- Who funds FARMING HOPE ↗
- Who funds RITTER CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORIAN ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds California Native Plant Society ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sagacity Sharp Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sagacity Sharp Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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