· Private foundation
The E J Scharpf Foundation
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $160,000 |
| LASALLE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| COLLINS YOUTH SERVICES | $17,750 |
| DOROTHY DAY OUTREACH CENTER | $15,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $15,000 |
| GUIDING EYE FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2023 · $762k · revenue +5%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +156%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC6× · 2019–2025 · $60k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SFST FRANCES UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $115k
- PVPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICone grant, 2024 · $15k
- PVPARALYZED VERERANS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 68 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE HEALTH ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY PRIDE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Somos Familia ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
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: Scharpf Family Foundation Inc Eric Scharpf · Tides Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The E J Scharpf Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The E J Scharpf Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc: 34% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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