Tennessee · Private foundation
Sharpe Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
55% of Sharpe Family Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 20 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Sharpe Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Sharpe Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $50k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $50k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $45k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $44k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $43k | 64% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Horizon Inc | $35,939 | 6 | n/a |
| Exceptional Bean | $25,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Renewanation | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kelcurt Foundation Inc | $12,805 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of the Troops | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| On Point | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Life | $8,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boyd Buchanan School | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Horizon Inc | $35,939 | 6 | n/a |
| Exceptional Bean | $25,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Renewanation | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kelcurt Foundation Inc | $12,805 | 2 | 5% |
| Friends of the Troops | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| On Point | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Young Life | $8,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boyd Buchanan School | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Blazing Hope Ranch | $7,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Bright School Inc | $6,002 | 2 | 0% |
| Rhea County Beekeepers Association | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Chambliss Center for Children | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The 247 Movement | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Public School Bible Study Committee | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Skyuka Hall | $4,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Rhea County Fair | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Ocoee Region | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rhea of Sunshine Incorporated | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project K9 Hero | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Journey Health Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Casa Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Desiring Advancement Overseas Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rhea Richland Senior Neighbors Inc | $660 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($275k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sharpe Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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: Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation · George R Johnson Family Foundation · Jack and Charlotte Frost Family Foundation · Hamico Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Benwood Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Tucker Foundation · Steve and Lisa Frost Family Foundation · Frank Jb & Emma S Varallo Foundation
How this is measured
About Sharpe Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Sharpe Family Foundation Inc give?
- Sharpe Family Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $49,505 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Sharpe Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Religion (19%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Sharpe Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Camp Horizon Inc ($36k), Exceptional Bean ($26k), Renewanation ($16k).
- Does Sharpe Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sharpe Family Foundation Inc 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 Sharpe Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation, The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc, Schillhahn-Huskey Foundation.
- Where is Sharpe Family Foundation Inc based?
- Sharpe Family Foundation Inc is based in TN.
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