· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY TREASURE CHEST | $2,500 |
| MERCY HOME | $2,200 |
| NOTRE DAME BURKE SCHOLARS | $2,000 |
| OHIO AEROSPACE INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| AFTER 26 PROJECT | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| KOLBE HOUSE | $2,000 |
| ZELDA'S KITCHEN WITCHES | $1,600 |
| ST VERONICA CATHOLIC PARISH | $1,500 |
| W FAIRFAX CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| COMPANIONS JOURNEYING TOGETHER INC | $52 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPediatric Oncology Treasure Chest8× · 2018–2025 · $54k · revenue +16%
- IIInspiritus Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $4k · revenue +117%
- TATHE AFTER 26 PROJECT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MSMRT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds TENDER LOVING CARE ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds WATER WISE GULF SOUTH ↗
- Who funds Oglala Lakota Childrens Justice Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST FAMILES NOW ↗
- Who funds VAN BUREN YOUTH CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE WETLANDS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ELMHURST-YORKFIELD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds DUPAGE SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sharon Denning Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharon Denning Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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