California · Private foundation
Sharanam Foundation
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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $811k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Sharanam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $44k | 43% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $42k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $52k | 77% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $48k | 71% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $47k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $35k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $27k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tarlov Cyst Disease Foundation | $72,000 | 7 | 57% |
| Cabrillo College Foundation | $37,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County | $25,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Teen Kitchen Project | $21,500 | 5 | 1% |
| University Corporation at Monterey Bay | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Women Donors Network | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ada's Cafe | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($74k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sharanam Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Newman's Own Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Michael & Alice Chetkovich Foundation · Caroline's Nonprofit Thrift Shop · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Dignity Health
How this is measured
About Sharanam Foundation
- How much does Sharanam Foundation give?
- Sharanam Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sharanam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (17%), Philanthropy (12%).
- Who are Sharanam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tarlov Cyst Disease Foundation ($72k), Cabrillo College Foundation ($37k), Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County ($25k).
- Does Sharanam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharanam 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 Sharanam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Sharanam Foundation based?
- Sharanam Foundation is based in CA.
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