How much does The Sharks Foundation give?

The Sharks Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $869,710, out of $979,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Sharks Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (10%), Education (9%), Human Services (8%).

Who are The Sharks Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cityteam Ministries ($395k), Npower Inc ($330k), The Peninsula College Fund ($230k).

Does The Sharks Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sharks Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sobrato Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc.

Where is The Sharks Foundation based?

The Sharks Foundation is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

The Sharks Foundation

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION empowers youth through education and wellness programs while advancing equitable access to hockey for all.

$979k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 28
Organizations funded FY2024: 54%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $870k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $115,000
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 37; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $848k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 54% of the organizations The Sharks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$870k	10%
FY2024	28	$854k	54%
FY2023	37	$919k	76%
FY2022	18	$780k	89%
FY2021	22	$553k	n/a

95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$713kEducation$618kHuman Services$577kReligion$395kYouth Development$370kRecreation & Sports$352kEmployment$330kEnvironment$136kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cityteam Ministries	$395,473	2	1%
Npower Inc	$330,000	3	0%
The Peninsula College Fund	$230,000	2	6%
Braven Inc	$230,000	2	1%
Bill Wilson Center	$193,429	4	0%
Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)	$185,700	2	1%
Sharks Alumni Foundation	$135,866	3	8%
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls	$89,430	3	5%
Narika	$85,715	3	4%
Latino Education Advancement Foundation	$85,000	1	2%

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All grantees of The Sharks Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cityteam Ministries	$395,473	2	1%
Npower Inc	$330,000	3	0%
The Peninsula College Fund	$230,000	2	6%
Braven Inc	$230,000	2	1%
Bill Wilson Center	$193,429	4	0%
Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)	$185,700	2	1%
Sharks Alumni Foundation	$135,866	3	8%
Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls	$89,430	3	5%
Narika	$85,715	3	4%
Latino Education Advancement Foundation	$85,000	1	2%
Loved Twice	$83,429	2	6%
Save The Bay	$79,715	2	1%
Special Olympics Northern California Inc	$70,000	3	0%
Okizu Foundation	$69,430	3	1%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley	$66,360	3	0%
Kids & Art Foundation	$65,700	3	8%
San Francisco Earthquakes Lgbtq Plus Ice Hockey Club	$60,000	2	n/a
Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley	$60,000	2	1%
Walden West Outdoor School Foundation	$60,000	2	43%
George Mark Childrens Fund	$59,430	2	0%
Access Books Bay Area	$59,430	2	37%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley	$56,000	1	0%
African American Community Service Agency	$50,000	1	2%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley	$48,429	2	1%
One Step Beyond Inc	$45,621	2	0%
Teen Kitchen Project	$40,000	2	2%
There With Care of the Bay Area	$37,527	2	2%
Self-Estem	$33,429	1	13%
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc	$33,429	1	1%
Hope Services	$33,429	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity East Bay Silicon Valley	$33,429	1	0%
Wayfinder Family Services	$31,165	2	0%
Local Color	$30,000	1	n/a
Hack the Hood Inc	$29,715	1	n/a
One Life Counseling Center	$28,700	2	0%
Adolescent Counseling Services	$25,715	1	2%
Elevate Tutoring Inc	$25,715	1	4%
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated	$25,715	1	1%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$25,715	1	0%
International Association for Human Values	$25,710	1	1%
10000 Degrees	$25,000	1	0%
Mental Health Association For Chinese Communities	$25,000	1	1%
Science Is Elementary Inc	$25,000	1	3%
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley	$23,400	2	1%
You Can Play	$20,621	1	7%
Sheis Nfp Inc	$20,621	1	52%
Shine Together Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Jessie Rees Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities - Bay Area	$20,000	1	0%
San Jose Firefighters Burn Foundation Inc	$20,000	2	8%
10,000 Degrees	$18,875	1	n/a
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley	$18,875	1	n/a
Save Our Shores	$17,500	2	1%
Dec My Room Inc	$17,365	2	2%
Breakthrough T1d	$15,574	2	0%
Jasper Ridge Farm	$15,000	1	3%
United Service Organizations Inc	$14,000	1	0%
Vitalant	$13,500	1	0%
Cancer Carepoint Inc	$12,960	1	1%
Side By Side	$12,585	2	0%
Aircraft Carrier Hornet Foundation	$12,000	1	0%
Techbridge Girls	$11,815	1	0%
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Inc	$10,400	2	0%
San Jose Parks Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
California Sports Center	$10,000	1	n/a
Pajama Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Chinese for Affirmative Actio	$10,000	1	n/a
Art of Living Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Running for a Better Oakland	$10,000	1	5%
Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative	$9,145	1	1%
Martha's Kitchen	$8,900	1	0%
Friends for Youth Inc	$8,170	1	1%
Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Support Services	$7,500	1	n/a
Pacific Clinics	$7,000	1	0%
Mk Level Playing Field Institute	$7,000	1	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$6,145	1	0%
Give US the Floor	$6,000	1	4%
Summer Search	$5,930	1	0%
Caminar	$5,700	1	0%
Marine Science Institute	$5,500	1	0%
DEFENDING THE BLUE LINE dba UNITED HEROES LEAGUE	$5,500	1	n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

The Sharks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 72.

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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 Sobrato Family FoundationCA45.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Atkinson Foundation

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.

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About The Sharks Foundation

How much does The Sharks Foundation give?: The Sharks Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $869,710, out of $979,300 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 37 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Sharks Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (10%), Education (9%), Human Services (8%).
Who are The Sharks Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Cityteam Ministries ($395k), Npower Inc ($330k), The Peninsula College Fund ($230k).
Does The Sharks Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sharks Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sobrato Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc.
Where is The Sharks Foundation based?: The Sharks Foundation is based in CA.