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Sharp 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC | $10,500 |
| IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE | $10,000 |
| THE ISLAND SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGES SCHOOL | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,250 |
| SYNERGY HOUSES | $5,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SICANGU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| THE VOYAGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CARING HEARTS FOR CANINES | $3,500 |
| STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC | $2,250 |
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, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
73 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- HOHISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $266k · revenue +222%
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE2× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +11%- BGBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BGBOCA GRANDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- ASASHEVILLE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +25%
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pischel Hildegarde T Endowment Fund. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
85 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. 85 of the 129 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 HISTORIC ODESSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION BUILDING CORP ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PISCHEL HILDEGARDE T ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds SALT LAKE CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sicangu Community Development Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE GOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Wa Speakman Family Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc · Welfare Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Fair Play Foundation · Wakefield Family Fund Inc · Marmot Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Kookaburra 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 Sharp 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Education Building Corp — 64% of income from government
- The Odessa Fire Company Inc — 55% of income from government
- Christiana Care Health System Inc — 43% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc — 33% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Paul's Place Inc — 29% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Theatre Company — 8% of income from government
- First State Squash Inc — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Health Care for the Homeless Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Historic Odessa Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- The Tatnall School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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