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Sharp Health Plan at a glance

· Public charity

Sharp Health Plan

To promote the health and to serve the community interests of the residents of california, by operation of a health maintenance organization and by provision of other managed health care services.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$10MYouth Development$113kFood & Nutrition$71kArts & Culture$68kCommunity Improvement$55kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$15kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $18,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $69,675 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,925 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$18,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$362M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIRL SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC$18,750
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEALTH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION: $15k → 10%HEALTH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION: $10k → 11%Sharp Healthcare Foundation: $4.0M → 11%HEALTH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION: $10k → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $4.0M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%Sharp HealthCare Foundation: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 11%ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 11%Asian Business Association: $6k → 11%ASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION: $6k → 11%San Diego Second Chance: $5k → 11%Girl Scouts SDIMP Council Inc: $25k → 11%GIRLS SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC: $20k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC: $19k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC: $15k → 11%Girl Scouts SDimp Council Inc: $15k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC: $15k → 11%GIRL SCOUTS SDIMP COUNCIL INC: $15k → 11%Girl Scouts San DiegoImperial Council Inc: $8k → 11%San Diego Food Bank: $15k → 11%San Diego Food Bank: $15k → 11%SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $8k → 11%San Diego Food Bank: $8k → 11%San Diego Food Bank: $6k → 11%San Diego North Chamber of Commerce: $18k → 11%SAN DIEGO NORTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 11%San Diego North Chamber of Commerce: $7k → 11%PALOMAR HEALTH: $11k → 11%Grossmont Hospital Foundation: $6k → 11%PACIFIC ART MOVEMENT: $32k → 11%PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $13k → 11%PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $12k → 11%Pacific Art Movement: $11k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 8 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +111% since the first grant, against -23% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$10M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+111%
-23%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare Foundation
    6× · 2017–2023 · $10M · revenue +54%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +14%
  • PA
    PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT
    4× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • PH
    PALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue -43%
  • SD
    San Diego Food System Alliancegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +99%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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2
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

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3
San Diego and Imperial Counties Labor Council Afl-Cio

The Labor Council offers an avenue for local unions to come together as one group.

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4
Building Industry Association of San Diego

The mission of the building industry association of san diego is to proactively promote a positive business environment for the land development, home building and commercial development industry throughout san diego county.

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5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
San Diego Housing Federation

The Federation brings together representatives of affordable housing community development corporations with others interested in the development and management of housing for low and moderate income persons in San Diego County to mutually…

Education
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
San Diego County Credit Union

A not-for-profit credit union wholly owned by its members

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9
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
San Diego Diplomacy Council

Programmed and coordinated visits to san diego by international visitors and escorts, working in association with appropriate united states government agencies and the global ties u.s. network.

Community Improvement
12
Greater San Diego Business Association Inc

Business ownership, workforce equality & supportive consumerism; creating prosperity to support equality, diversity & inclusion.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Arts Movement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sharp Healthcare Foundation: $10,070,000 · HealthSharp Healthcare Foundation+2 more: $38,600 · HealthGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC: $131,250 · Youth DevelopmentJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $60,625 · Food & NutritionSan Diego Food System Alliance: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $67,865 · Arts & CultureHEALTH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION EFFRT: $35,000 · EducationNORTH SAN DIEGO BUSINESS CHAMBER: $35,000 · Community ImprovementASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO: $20,200 · OtherSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $5,300 · Employment
Health$10,108,600Youth Development$131,250Food & Nutrition$70,625Arts & Culture$67,865Education$35,000Community Improvement$35,000Other$20,200Employment$5,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $10,070,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS SAN DIEGO-IMPERIAL COUNCIL INC: $131,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $67,865 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $60,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH INDUSTRY COLLABORATION EFFRT: $35,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH SAN DIEGO BUSINESS CHAMBER: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $27,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION SAN DIEGO: $20,200 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPALOMAR HEALTH FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego Food System Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO SECOND CHANCE PROGRAM: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Conrad Prebys Fou…Samuel I & John Henry…David C Copley Founda…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…The San Diego Foundat…Sempra FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Conrad Prebys FoundationCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sharp Health Plan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharp Health Plan. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sharp Health Plan?

    Find your warmest path to Sharp Health Plan through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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