· Private foundation
Sharon Denning Charitable Trust
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY TREASURE CHEST | $2,500 |
| MERCY HOME | $2,200 |
| AFTER 26 PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| KOLBE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| NOTRE DAME BURKE SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| ZELDA'S KITCHEN WITCHES | $1,600 |
| W FAIRFAX CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| ST VERONICA CATHOLIC PARISH | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| COMPANIONS JOURNEYING TOGETHER INC | $52 |
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 (FY18–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- POPediatric Oncology Treasure Chest8× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +16%
- KHKOLBE HOUSE6× · 2018–2025 · $7k
- MHMERCY HOME FOR BOYS & GIRLS6× · 2018–2023 · $7k
Funded once
- MSMRT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
Legal action exists to provide creative, effective, and high-quality legal representation in order to achieve justice for low-income people and others to whom it would otherwise be denied. we advocate for empowerment and systemic change to…
Providing work experience and employment for persons with significant disabilities through government contract work.
Seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection. The Center is a part of and supports a movement to end all…
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
Resolution of disputes, information, and referral services.
Improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes in public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and community outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Aid Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Companions Journeying Together Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 42 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 Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest ↗
- Who funds Zeldas Kitchen Witches ↗
- Who funds Inspiritus Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds VAN BUREN YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WATER WISE GULF SOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TENDER LOVING CARE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds Oglala Lakota Childrens Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST FAMILES NOW ↗
- Who funds FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
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: Alliant Credit Union Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Sharon Denning Charitable Trust 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.
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.