Massachusetts · Private foundation
Sharp Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $853k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $460,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Sharp Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 39 | $853k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $1.7M | 27% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $2.3M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $6.1M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $680k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $2.0M | 25% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $604k | 12% |
| FY2017 | 33 | $597k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $1,007,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Union Commonwealth University | $1,000,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Termeer Institute Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Eliot Church of Newton | $114,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Biotechnology Education Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Open Medicine Foundation | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Boston's Homeless Inc | $34,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $34,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greensboro Independent School Corp | $26,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sharp Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Sharp Charitable Trust
- How much does Sharp Charitable Trust give?
- Sharp Charitable Trust reported 39 grants totaling $853,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sharp Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Sharp Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research ($1.0M), Union Commonwealth University ($1.0M), The Termeer Institute Inc ($250k).
- Does Sharp Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharp Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sharp Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Sharp Charitable Trust based?
- Sharp Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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