· Private foundation
The Sharoky Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARAMINTA FREEDOM INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| PONZER VOLUNTEER FIRE & RESCUE DEPARTMENT INC | $1,000 |
| VETERAN VA CHAPTER 648 | $510 |
| ULMAN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SONS OF THE AMERICAN LEGION POST #70 | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–20, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BSBOND SERVANTS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $26k · revenue +27%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +60%
- TCTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- BCBALTIMORE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHone grant, 2021 · $90k
- HVHope Villages of America Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +49%
- YLYOUNG LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +39%
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.
Non profit, all volunteer organization, providing emergency medical care and transportation in the town of warwick, ny and village of florida, ny
To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.
Ambulance
Provide protection of life and property through fire prevention, suppression and emergency medical services to the community of owings mills and the citizens of baltimore county
Drug strategies promotes more effective approaches to the nation's drug problems and supports private and public efforts to reduce the demand for drugs through prevention, education and treatment.
Laurel Volunteer Rescue Squad, Inc. is a completely volunteer organization serving the citizens of Laurel, MD by providing fire, EMS, and rescue services to the citizens of the Laurel, Maryland Community.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To provide substance abuse treatment and prevention.
To preserve and protect life and property during fires and other emergencies in Harborcreek, PA and vicinity
Volunteer, non-profit organization that provides 911 emergency care to the sick and injured. our primary response area encompasses approximately 70 square miles.
Emergency ambulance service
To know god, and make him known
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 BOND SERVANTS INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Villages of America Inc ↗
- Who funds Araminta Freedom Initiative ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ULMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EE STREETS MEMORIAL POST 5118 VFW ↗
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: Vinik Family Foundation · Debartolo Family Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Sharoky Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Araminta Freedom Initiative — 26% of income from government
- The Crisis Center of Tampa Bay Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hope Villages of America Inc — 2% 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.