· 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.
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP HORIZON | $4,000 |
| KELCURT FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE EXCEPTIONAL BEAN | $4,000 |
| RENEW A NATION | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TROOPS | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $3,000 |
| BRIGHT SCHOOL | $2,002 |
| CHATTANOOGA HEART ASSOCIATION | $2,001 |
| AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| RHEA COUNTY BEEKEEPERS ASSOC | $2,000 |
| KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| GPS IMPACT FUND | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 65% 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
Backed again, and grew
- EBEXCEPTIONAL BEAN4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +33%
- RRENEWANATION4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +25%
- KFKelcurt Foundation Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BUburk un methodist churcone grant, 2020 · $21k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
King's academy is a pre-k-8th grade independent christian school in nashville, tennessee, providing a classically inspired education to a racially and socioeconomically balanced student body.
Christ-centered school educating children of diverse racial & socioeconomic backgrounds by establishing a biblical worldview & preparing each child to flourish academically, emotionally, socially & spiritually.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
To prepare students to lead and serve with distinction while representing christ and his kingdom in all areas of home, church, society and culture.
Christian day school with pre-k thru 12
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
The mission of harrells christian academy is to prepare each student for higher education within an environment that instills judeo-christian values, fosters self-discipline, enhances creativity, and promises a love and respect for…
Cookson hills christian school has been providing home, school, and therapy for kids who are at-risk, since 1957.
To partner with families in providing students a christ-centered and academically challenging education equipping them with a biblical worldview as they grow in understandings, attitudes, skills, and in favor with god and man.
The organization is a christian school with the purpose of educating students in grades pre-k-12 with a christian curriculum with christian teachers in a christian environment.
Christian education
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 73 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL BEAN ↗
- Who funds RENEWANATION ↗
- Who funds Kelcurt Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TROOPS ↗
- Who funds ON POINT ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER ↗
- Who funds BOYD BUCHANAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLAZING HOPE RANCH ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE 247 MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SCHOOL BIBLE STUDY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SKYUKA HALL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sharpe Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharpe Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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