How much does The Evelyn Sharp Foundation give?

The Evelyn Sharp Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $1,253,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Evelyn Sharp Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Social Science (6%), Education (5%).

Who are The Evelyn Sharp Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation ($2.2M), California Institute of the Arts ($1.2M), The Rand Corporation ($410k).

Does The Evelyn Sharp Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Evelyn Sharp Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Evelyn Sharp Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Arnhold Foundation Inc.

Where is The Evelyn Sharp Foundation based?

The Evelyn Sharp Foundation is based in NY.

The Evelyn Sharp Foundation

The Evelyn Sharp Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Evelyn Sharp Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

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 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.1MSocial Science$410kEducation$327kYouth Development$127kHuman Services$70kInternational$46kHousing & Shelter$25kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k10 grants · $40k
$10k–50k20 grants · $320k
$50k–250k8 grants · $644k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
Park Avenue Armory	$25,000
Paul Taylor Dance Company	$25,000
Metropolitan Opera	$25,000
The WOW Foundation	$25,000
Martha's Vineyard Boys Girls Club	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.6M · 44 repeat orgs$502k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.6M

$409k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+44%

Still filing today

68%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

SR
SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +43%
CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS
7× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +30%
The Rand Corporation
7× · 2019–2025 · $410k · revenue +16%

Funded once

C
CALARTS
one grant, 2021 · $55k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2023 · $30k
TP
The Peddie Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +42%

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.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc

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,…

Arts & Culture

The Harkness Foundation for Dance Inc

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Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture

Foundation for Modern Opera

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Los Angeles International Dance Festival

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Manhattan Theatre Club Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Move(Nyc) Foundation Inc

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…

Public Benefit

Amda Inc (American Musical and Dramatic Academy)

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…

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The Neue Galerie New York

Arts & Culture

Amigos Del Museo Del Barrio Inc El Museo Del Barrio

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.

Arts & Culture

Transport Group Inc Dba Transport Group Theatre Company

Producing and developing plays and musicals.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harlem Stage Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 107 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

68/68

Grantees still filing

46/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$4,642,190Other$1,739,971Public Benefit$410,000Education$145,000Human Services$69,500International$52,500Youth Development$50,000

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.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY22.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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