· Private foundation
The Rhoades-Robinson Fund
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.
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 $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHORE SERVICE | $15,000 |
| REGION ONE REVOLVING FUN | $15,000 |
| SHARON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,750 |
| SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SHARON HOUSING TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND | $8,750 |
| HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHAR | $7,500 |
| THE SHARON DAY CARE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| ST KATERI CARING FUND | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $5,000 |
| THE SHARON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $5,000 |
| THE SHARON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +54% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +529% · 33% of their budget
- HLHOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +113%
- CSCHORE SERVICE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HVHOUSATONIC VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $15k
- OWOLIVER WOLCOTT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (LEONARDO VILLANES)one grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
The purpose of the trust is to protect and conserve land in the town of sharon ct
Research Local History
The mission of the sharon communty development corporation is to drive community and economic development
The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
Community trust
To provide facilities to play golf and other recreational activities. the club maintains a clubhouse with dining facilities for the use and enjoyment of its members.
Provide golf recreation to its members
We are an early childhood organization that serves preschool children and families in two locations: the Sharon Cooperative School and the Cooperative Nature School; together these schools form the Cooperative Learning Community. We offer…
Affordable housing for salisbury ct
To provide quality child care
The sharon foundation exists solely for the benefit of the presbyterian home at charlotte, inc. (d/b/a the sharon at southpark) and its residents.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 29 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 THE HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC ↗
- Who funds CHORE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds SHARON HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT 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: Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · MJPM Foundation · The Mortimer & Barbara Klaus Family Foundation · Low Road Foundation · Aetna Foundation 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 Rhoades-Robinson Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rhoades-Robinson Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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