How much did THE SHARKS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION reported 37 grants totaling $1,035,008 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is THE SHARKS FOUNDATION based?

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION is based in CA.

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION is dedicated to enhancing the lives of underserved youth and families in the community with an emphasis in the areas of education, health and safety, and character building.

$1.0M

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$176k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE SHARKS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

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2023

childrenstemcancertraininglivinginspiremental

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k12 grants · $85k
$10k–50k22 grants · $468k
$50k–250k3 grants · $366k

$12,960

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

VMC FOUNDATION TURNINGWHEELS FOR KIDS$175,700
CITYTEAM$140,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY$33,429
CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY$33,429
BILL WILSON CENTER$33,429
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAYSILICON VALLEY$33,429
HOPE SERVICES$33,429
LOVED TWICE$33,429
SELF E-STEM$33,429
SCIENTIFIC ADVENTURES FOR GIRLS$30,000
SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY$25,000
TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT$20,000
ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER$20,000
SHINE TOGETHER$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 26% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

California Competes

California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…

Education

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

Support the launch of excellent new schools and innovative practices that improve education.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Svhome

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter

California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment

California Life Sciences Association

Advance ca life sciences ecosystem by advocating public policies & supporting businesses.

Community Improvement

San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA (formerly San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates) transforms the lives of systems-involved and other vulnerable children, young adults and their families by providing consistent, caring volunteer advocates…

Civil Rights

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition

We connect people facing barriers to care with surgical and specialty services donated by local providers to advance health equity.

Health

Advokids

Protecting and promoting the right of every child in foster care in California to safety, security, and a permanent home. Teaching others how to advocate for safety, security, and permanency for children in foster care.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Dec My Room Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/37

the rest of the field

10%

2,824/28,475

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.

05the grantee network

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/37

Grantees still filing

31/37

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,075,984Health$242,140Human Services$170,637Religion$140,000Youth Development$91,895Employment$39,359Education$36,815

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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA36.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · Star One Credit Union · The Health Trust

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 organisation THE SHARKS 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SELF E-STEM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472316798 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SELF E-STEM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Sharks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Sharks Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sharks Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

37 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Sharks Foundation?

More from the funding graph