· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIM VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - HILTON HEAD | $50,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| DURANGO EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CENTER | $20,000 |
| MANNA - SOUP KITCHEN | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER DURANGO | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| UCSB FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| BABY2BABY | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER - SOUTH BAY | $10,000 |
| BEACON HILL | $5,000 |
| CONQHER INC | $4,500 |
| TEXAS ENTREPRENEUR ECOSYSTEM | $4,000 |
| HAKING INNOVATION | $3,000 |
| FUTURE READY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MTMANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +55%
- DEDurango Education Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +56%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +167%
Funded once
United Way of Greater Houstonone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +5%- WCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHENone grant, 2020 · $50k
- DRDIRECT RELIEF - PUERTO RICOone grant, 2017 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Goodwill Industries of Dallas, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to help people with barriers to employment build skills, find jobs and reach their goals in life so that they can reach their full potential and experience…
End hunger together.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Dallas area habitat for humanity, inc. is a nondenominational christian not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to sponsor specific projects in habitat development for the dallas, texas area. modest but adequate housing, new or…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The Dallas Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a 501(c)(3) public-private consortium of public, private, civic and academia to support smart city initiatives in Dallas. Our definition of a Smart City is one at the intersection of community, data…
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
Uwmd is a community-based social change organization that unites the community to create lasting change. for 100 years, we've brought together passionate change-makers, alongside corporate, civic and nonprofit partners, to strengthen…
Housing forward leads in the development and implementation of an effective homeless response system to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in dallas and collin counties.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stand 4 Sisterhood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 86 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds MANNA - THE DURANGO SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Durango Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL PREPARATORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF LA PLATA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Alliance For Progress ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
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.
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
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 Sharma 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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.