Texas · Private foundation
The Sharma 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.
- $238k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Sharma Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $238k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $213k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $220k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $240k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $200k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $172k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $203k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $197k | 80% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Houston | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Durango Education Foundation | $55,000 | 3 | 4% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mobile Loaves & Fishes Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Sharma Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Hoglund Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sharma Foundation
- How much does The Sharma Foundation give?
- The Sharma Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $237,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Sharma Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Food & Nutrition (11%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are The Sharma Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Houston ($100k), Manna - the Durango Soup Kitchen ($65k), Durango Education Foundation ($55k).
- Does The Sharma Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sharma Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sharma Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc, The Dallas Foundation.
- Where is The Sharma Foundation based?
- The Sharma Foundation is based in TX.
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