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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
Anchored by a single position — about 90% of reported assets are held in Cost.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +82% · 57% of their budget
- CCCabrillo College Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +45%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- MMMOUNT MADONNA CENTERone grant, 2022 · $8k
- ACAda's Cafeone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -8%
- TWTEWA WOMEN UNITEDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
MUAis an organization of Latina and Indigenous immigrant women with the mission of growing our personal and community power to achieve social and economic justice. Personal transformation and civic-political participation go hand in hand.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren) 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds TARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County ↗
- Who funds TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds ACTIVITIES 4 ALL ↗
- Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEWA WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING ↗
- Who funds Elkhorn Slough Foundation ↗
- Who funds SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Narika ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH ↗
- Who funds Connect 2 Ministries ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SALUD Y CARINO INC ↗
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.
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
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 organization 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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 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.