Delaware · Private foundation
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.
- $145k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 61
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 77
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Sharp Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $145k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $161k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 77 | $591k | 49% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $146k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $125k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $113k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $80k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $84k | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Historic Odessa Foundation | $266,475 | 9 | 4% |
| Stroud Water Research Center | $55,175 | 9 | 0% |
| Asheville School Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boca Grande United Methodist Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Delaware | $46,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boca Grande Health Clinic Fndtn Inc | $41,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Irvine Natural Science Center Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Education Building Corp | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Tower Hill School Association | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Delaware Inc | $31,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($402k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sharp Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Sharp Foundation
- How much does Sharp Foundation give?
- Sharp Foundation reported 61 grants totaling $145,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 77 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sharp Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Arts & Culture (21%), Health (11%).
- Who are Sharp Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Historic Odessa Foundation ($266k), Stroud Water Research Center ($55k), Asheville School Inc ($50k).
- Does Sharp Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharp Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Delaware Community Foundation Inc, Longwood Foundation Inc, Wa Speakman Family Foundation.
- Where is Sharp Foundation based?
- Sharp Foundation is based in DE.
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