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Sharp Healthcare Foundation

Provide support and assistance to sharp healthcare.

$26M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$110MRecreation & Sports$21kPhilanthropy$20k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
  • $250k+3 grants · $26M
$5,290,361
Median grant
1
States reached
$200M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$15,055,635
SHARP HEALTHCARE$5,291,311
SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER$5,290,361
SHARP CORONADO HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE CENTER$78,789
GROSSMONT HOSPITAL CORPORATION$40,313
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 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $15.1M → 11%CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $15.0M → 11%LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $13.5M → 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $11.5M → 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $7.2M → 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $7.1M → 11%Sharp Memorial Hospital: $6.7M → 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5.6M → 11%SHARP MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5.4M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $5.3M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $5.3M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $4.3M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA: $3.8M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $3.2M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $2.8M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $2.8M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $2.7M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA: $2.7M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $2.4M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA: $2.3M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $2.1M → 11%SHARP CHULA VISTA MEDICAL CENTER: $2.0M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $1.9M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $1.9M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $1.2M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $1.0M → 11%SHARP HEALTHCARE: $656k → 11%Grossmont Hospital Corporation: $99k → 11%Grossmont Hospital Corporation: $95k → 11%SHARP CORONADO HOSPITAL & HEALTHCARE CENTER: $79k → 11%Sharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center: $41k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $40k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $25k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $17k → 11%GROSSMONT HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $17k → 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.
$136M · 7 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$136M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-20%

Still filing today

86%
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
HealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SM
    Sharp Memorial Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $87M · revenue +30%
  • SC
    Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $26M · revenue +75%
  • SH
    Sharp Healthcare
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • CH
    CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -20%
  • TH
    Texas Hospital Association Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -27%
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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sharp Healthcare Foundation

Provide support and assistance to sharp healthcare.

Health
3
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist ellen browning scripps, scripps health is a $4.8 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in san diego, ca. (see sch o)

Health
4
Sutter Valley Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego

To restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
8
Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd

Huntington Health stands for community. We stand for compassion. But more than anything, Huntington stands for health. Providing world-class health care is our specialty, and it's what we've been doing for the San Gabriel Valley since…

Health
9
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
10
Rex Hospital Inc

To improve the health and well-being of north carolinians and others whom we serve. we accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Honorhealth

Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sharp Healthcare; the most unlike its peers is Life Rolls On Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sharp Memorial Hospital: $87,013,607 · HealthSharp Memorial HospitalSharp Chula Vista Medical Center: $26,051,919 · HealthSharp Chula Vista Medical CenterSharp Healthcare: $22,058,467 · HealthSharp Healthcare+3 more: $184,853 · HealthGrossmont Hospital Corporation: $139,626 · OtherSharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center: $120,100 · OtherCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Health$135,308,846Other$259,726Philanthropy$20,000

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 Memorial Hospital: $87,013,607 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSharp Chula Vista Medical Center: $26,051,919 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSharp Healthcare: $22,058,467 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Corporation: $154,303 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center: $120,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $20,550 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Hospital Association Foundation: $10,000 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.

  • Who funds Sharp Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare ↗
  • Who funds Grossmont Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Coronado Hospital & Healthcare Center ↗
  • Who funds LIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA HEALTH FOUNDATION AND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Texas Hospital Association Foundation ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    5report 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, FY20–24
    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.

    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 9 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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