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The Richard T Sharp Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Arts & Culture$68kEducation$38kHealth$7kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$2kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$4,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIR JOHN SOANE MUSEUM FOUNDATION$4,800
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PFLAG NYC: $1k → 17%PFLAG NYC: $750 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$52k · 5 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$52k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +45%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +18%
  • NY
    New York City Parents of Lesbians and Gay Men Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +982%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
  • W
    WAMC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • NC
    NY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

6
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
7
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
12
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Caresequity Fights Aids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stage Notes Academy of Performing Arts. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP+1 more — $1,500 · Community ImprovementAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $30,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INCSIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $9,800 · Arts & CultureSIR JOHN SOANE'S…WAMC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWAMCSTAGE NOTES ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSTAGE NOTES ACAD…THOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS COLE HIST…YALE LAW SCHOOL — $6,000 · OtherYALE LAW SCH…BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $4,400 · OtherBROADWAY CAR…ST JUDE RESEARCH CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,000 · OtherST JUDE RESE…SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · OtherSYRIAN AMERI…+1 more — $250 · OtherNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP — $3,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $1,000 · Food & NutritionNew York City Parents of Lesbians and Gay Men Inc — $1,750 · Human ServicesRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Community Improvement$51,500Education$30,000Arts & Culture$17,800Other$12,650Food & Nutrition$4,000Human Services$1,750Recreation & Sports$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE OLANA PARTNERSHIP — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $9,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWAMC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $4,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNY COMMUNITY FRIDGE CORP — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGE NOTES ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS — $2,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SYLVIA CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Jm Kaplan Fund IncNY13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Richard T 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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