How much did SHARANAM FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of SHARANAM FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

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2022

kitchen

2023

santa cruz

2024

santa cruz

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $24k
$10k–50k1 grant · $20k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Cost.

Largest grants

KAZU$20,000
CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION$8,000
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK$4,000
SIREN$4,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$3,000
SANTA CRUZ SPCA$2,500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$253k · 12 repeat orgs$102k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +247% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$253k

$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+247%

+46%

Still filing today

42%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

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CABRILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION
4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +37%
TC
TARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $22k · revenue +82% · 57% of their budget
TK
TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT
5× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +247%

Funded once

MM
MOUNT MADONNA CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $8k
AC
ADA'S CAFE
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -18%
TW
TEWA WOMEN UNITEDgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Womens Cancer Resource Center

The Womens Cancer Resource Center improves equitable access to cancer information, support and care. We help people with cancer navigate through the often overwhelming health care system so that they can get the appropriate care and…

Unclassified

California Water Data Consortium

The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…

Science & Tech

World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services

Woman Inc

W.o.m.a.n., inc. supports survivors ofdomestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridgingvalue-rich networks designed to address intersections of violence.

Health

Californians Against Waste Foundation

Non-profit research and deucational organization that identifies, develops, promotes, and monitors policy solutions to pollution and conservation issues posing a threat to the environment, communities, and to public health.

Environment

Women's Foundation of California

Women's foundation of california amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.

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Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

Philanthropy

Bay Area Women Leader Network

How Women Lead elevates diverse women leaders in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields.

Human Services

The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

Help women and girls become financially stable.

Philanthropy

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services

Womens Coaching Alliance

The women's coaching alliance is on a mission to develop female leaders through coaching youth sports.

Youth Development

She-Can Global Inc

SHE-CAN equips and inspires low-opportunity women from post-conflict and climate-challenged countries to become impact leaders who individually and collectively change their nations and create pathways for future female leaders.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tewa Women United and the most unlike its peers is Activities 4 All. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$236,367Education$37,000Health$24,000Youth Development$21,500Philanthropy$14,500International$14,000Employment$7,500

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.

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.

Community Foundation Santa CruzCA20.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation SHARANAM 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~166 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205724680 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 166 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 57% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sharanam Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sharanam Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SHARANAM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sharanam Foundation?

More from the funding graph

SHARANAM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sharanam Foundation?

More from the funding graph