· Private foundation
The Evelyn Sharp Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $320k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $644k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | $250,000 |
| California Institute of the Arts | $150,000 |
| California Institute of the Arts | $132,000 |
| Park Avenue Armory | $75,000 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | $67,000 |
| The Rand Corporation | $60,000 |
| The Rand Corporation | $60,000 |
| Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation | $50,000 |
| Works and Process | $50,000 |
| Paul Taylor Dance Company | $25,000 |
| Martha's Vineyard Boys Girls Club | $25,000 |
| Metropolitan Opera | $25,000 |
| The WOW Foundation | $25,000 |
| Park Avenue Armory | $25,000 |
| Hips Road Inc | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SRSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +43%
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
The Rand Corporation7× · 2019–2025 · $410k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CCALARTSone grant, 2021 · $55k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundationsgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…
To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
Move|nyc| is a civic arts and social justice organization committed to cultivating a more diverse and inclusive society through transforming the field of professional dance. more than an arts organization, move|nyc| is a movement for…
Amda is committed to providing an unsurpassed performing arts education to a diverse community of creative artists. amda seeks to be both the school and the stage, where students are given the support and the freedom to find their voice…
El museo's mission is to preserve, interpret, and promote the artistic heritage of puerto ricans and all latin americans in the united states by means of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and educational activities.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81ST Street. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 68 of the 107 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds WORKS AND PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE YARD INC ↗
- Who funds MOLIERE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds Vineyard Arts Project Limited ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE BALANCHINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DISCALCED INC ↗
- Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOM GOLD DANCE FOUNDATION 51 WEST 81ST STREET ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jerome Robbins Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · New Music USA Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · The Shubert Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Evelyn Sharp Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Yard Inc — 28% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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