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Sharanam Foundation at a glance

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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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$100kEducation$62kPhilanthropy$43kFood & Nutrition$26kCrime & Legal$25kHuman Services$20kCivil Rights$17kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$811k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 90% of reported assets are held in Cost.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIREN: $4k → 8%TEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5k → 12%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$253k · 11 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$253k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+39%

Still filing today

73%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthCivil RightsEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TC
    TARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $72k · revenue +82% · 57% of their budget
  • CC
    Cabrillo College Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $37k · revenue +45%
  • CA
    Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County
    6× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • MM
    MOUNT MADONNA CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • AC
    Ada's Cafe
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -8%
  • TW
    TEWA WOMEN UNITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +79%
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
Santa Cruz Local Inc

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.

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2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Californians Against Waste Foundation

Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs

Environment
5
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
6
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

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.

Community Improvement
7
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
8
Centro Legal De La Raza

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.

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Mujeres Unidas y Activas

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.

Human Services
11
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
12
Chile-California Council

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Services Immigrant Rights and Education Network (Siren); 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 34 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CABRILLO FOUNDATION: $28,000 · OtherCABRILLO FOUNDATIONHOSPICE CARING PROJECT: $23,000 · OtherHOSPICE CARING PROJECTMOUNT MADONNA CENTER: $8,000 · OtherMOUNT MADONNA CENTERMT MADONNA SCHOOL: $4,867 · OtherSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $10,000 · OtherSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane SocietyTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5,000 · OtherAda's Cafe: $7,500 · OtherAda's CafeSANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: $4,500 · OtherACTIVITIES 4 ALL: $6,500 · Other+11 more: $32,000 · Other+11 moreTARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION: $72,000 · HealthTARLOV CYST DISEASE FOU…+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCabrillo College Foundation: $37,000 · EducationCabrillo College F…UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY CORPORA…Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County: $25,000 · Civil RightsCourt Appo…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $9,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & …TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentFoodWhat Incorporated: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $10,000 · PhilanthropyInland Empire Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyElkhorn Slough Foundation: $4,500 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $2,500 · International
Other$129,367Health$74,000Education$57,000Civil Rights$34,000Youth Development$24,500Philanthropy$19,500International$16,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTARLOV CYST DISEASE FOUNDATION: $72,000 over 7y, 57% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $37,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Cruz County: $25,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $21,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAda's Cafe: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEWA WOMEN UNITED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: $4,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNarika: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FARMWORKER FAMILIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetConnect 2 Ministries: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSALUD Y CARINO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …Monterey Peninsula Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Volunteer Centers of …Newman's Own Foundati…The J Miles and Rosan…The David and Lucile …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Michael & Alice Chetk…Caroline's Nonprofit …Pajaro Valley Communi…Dignity Health
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA25.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Sharanam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharanam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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