· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+2 grants · $710k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT PRESS FUND FOR THE FUTURE | $460,000 |
| THE TERMEER FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CANCER ENGINEERING WORKSHOP AT NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENSES | $52,000 |
| ELIOT CHURCH OF NEWTON | $15,000 |
| THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST | $5,000 |
| ASPEN CANCER CONFERENCE INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| LIFE SCIENCES CARES | $3,500 |
| THE SECOND STEP INC | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD AND FUEL ALLIANCE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +131%
- UCUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $1.0M · revenue +58%
- OMOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- PAPHILLIP AND ANN SHARP LIFE SCIENCES FELLOWSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS - PHILLIP & ANN SHARP CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- MMMIT MUSEUM AT KENDALL EXHIBITIONSone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
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 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Massbio is committed to advancing massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the health care system and improve patient lives.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 86 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 WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TERMEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Greensboro Independent School Corp ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HUNGER MOUNTAIN CHILD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CANCER CONFERENCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COASTAL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Waterbury Library ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sharp Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharp Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc: 75% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Hunger Mountain Child Center Inc: 10% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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