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Sharkey 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 $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ASHLAND COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWESTERN OREGON | $12,500 |
| LA CLINICA | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| SCIENCEWORKS | $10,000 |
| FARESTART | $10,000 |
| OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| BEE GIRL | $10,000 |
| APPLAUSE CHILDREN'S THEATER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SANTA MARGARITA LIBRARY | $8,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $5,000 |
| OREGON FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY (CAPSLO) | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- ASASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +122%
- BGBEE GIRL7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +96%
- SFSURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- YSYOUTH SYMPHONYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- CWCOMMUNITY WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +65%
- SMSISKIYOU MUSIC PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -19%
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.
Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.
Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.
The mission of oregon children's theater is to create exceptional theater experiences that transform lives. we do this by producing professional stage plays for young audiences, and through arts education classes and programs.
Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.
The oregon symphony is dedicated to moving music forward. our vision is bold and adventurous: to inspire audiences with exhilarating performances, present the best musicians in a wide range of styles, explore new art forms, shine light on…
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
Oregon ballet theatre is committed to sharing our passion for the expressive power of ballet, inspiring an enduring appreciation of dance, and connecting in meaningful ways to our community through excellence in performance, training, and…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
Profile theatres mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a season-long featured writer whose vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Surfing for Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 45 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 ASHLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEE GIRL ↗
- Who funds SURFING FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SYMPHONY OF SOUTHERN OREGON ↗
- Who funds APPLAUSE CHILDRENS THEATER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OREGON ↗
- Who funds TALENT MAKER CITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE HEART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SURFERS OF TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU MUSIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DIAPER BANK ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Ford Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sharkey 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
- Oregon Family Support Network Inc — 53% of income from government
- Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon — 6% of income from government
- Collaborative Theatre Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ashland Community Hospital Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% 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.
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