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Sharon H Limaye 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.

$168k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$274kEducation$251kEnvironment$158kYouth Development$153kPublic Safety & Disaster$97kPhilanthropy$83kInternational$59kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAND UP TO CANCER$40,000
ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY FOUNDATION$32,250
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$20,000
PHILLIES CHARITIES INC$17,170
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,200
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA$10,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$5,864
LAHEY CLINIC$5,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION$5,000
PENNSYLVANIA SOLAR CENTER$2,500
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,000
AMERICAN PHILATELIC FOUNDATION$2,000
THE ARC OF DELAWARE INC$1,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE DELAWARE COUNTY ADVOCACY & RESOURCE ORGANIZATION: $4k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $500 → 10%DAN MARINO FOUNDATION: $350 → 13%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $1k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $1k → 7%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $1k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 17%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $661 → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $38 → 17%ACLAMO FAMILY CENTERS: $615 → 7%COVENANT HOUSE: $38 → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $29k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%INGLIS HOUSE: $2k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
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RI
CA
NE
WV
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$873k · 33 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
54

Total granted

$873k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

88%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $130k · revenue +35%
  • ES
    ED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +103%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +133%
  • Philabundance
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • SY
    SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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4
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Researchamerica

2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…

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7
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
8
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mastiffs to Mutts. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportLocal History MuseumsYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,480

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
58/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION — $130,400 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY CONS…NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH — $110,000 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCHBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER — $30,500 · OtherBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CE…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $21,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER …+49 more — $99,591 · Other+49 moreTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $152,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSIT…Episcopal Academy — $76,660 · EducationEpiscopal AcademyHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $10,000 · Education+5 more — $8,256 · EducationSTAND UP TO CANCER — $70,000 · PhilanthropySTAND UP TO CAN…PHILLIES CHARITIES INC — $64,850 · PhilanthropyPHILLIES CHARIT…SIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $9,400 · PhilanthropySIXERS YOUTH FO…+6 more — $7,700 · PhilanthropyED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $130,300 · Recreation & SportsED SNIDER YOU…+1 more — $25 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $87,000 · Human ServicesAmerican …ACLAMO — $5,086 · Human ServicesDELAWARE COUNTY ADVOCACY & RESOURCE ORGANIZATION — $4,225 · Human Services+5 more — $3,426 · Human ServicesPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $43,192 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $9,750 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA — $9,651 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,500 · International+3 more — $2,270 · InternationalEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $10,400 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,400 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 · HealthVINCERA FOUNDATION — $1,160 · Health+9 more — $2,730 · Health
Other$391,491Education$257,416Philanthropy$151,950Recreation & Sports$130,325Human Services$99,737International$67,363Health$32,190

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $152,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY CONSERVATION — $130,400 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetED SNIDER YOUTH HOCKEY & EDUCATION — $130,300 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $87,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEpiscopal Academy — $76,660 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND UP TO CANCER — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIES CHARITIES INC — $64,850 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $43,192 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPennsylvania Conservative Energy Forum — $11,250 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA SOLAR CENTER — $10,527 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC — $10,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhilabundance — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $9,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA — $9,651 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSIXERS YOUTH FOUNDATION — $9,400 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACLAMO — $5,086 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetICIVICS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE COUNTY ADVOCACY & RESOURCE ORGANIZATION — $4,225 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINGLIS HOUSE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINCERA FOUNDATION — $1,160 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN AND ADULT DISABILITY AND EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHRISTOPHER M FUGA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetA LEG TO STAND ON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERMINATION PROJECT — $791 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding America — $565 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Susquehanna Valley YMCA — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPHOPELIVE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…The Philadelphia Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The William Penn Foun…Td Charitable Foundat…Chubb Charitable Foun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New JerseyPA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The William Penn Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 H Limaye 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Delaware Community Foundation Inc — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
20report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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