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The Sharoky Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$220kPublic Safety & Disaster$93kHuman Services$54kYouth Development$36kHealth$13kMembership Benefit$6kEnvironment$3kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$510
Median grant
2
States reached
$79k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 12%BOND SERVANTS INC: $20k → 15%HANDS ACROSS THE BAY: $5k → 12%BOND SERVANTS INC: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 10 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +45% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$277k
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+45%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BOND SERVANTS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $26k · revenue +27%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +60%
  • TC
    THE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • BC
    BALTIMORE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGH
    one grant, 2021 · $90k
  • HV
    Hope Villages of America Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Warwick Community Ambulance Service Inc

Non profit, all volunteer organization, providing emergency medical care and transportation in the town of warwick, ny and village of florida, ny

Health
2
Harford Volunteer Fire Company

To provide fire protection, rescue and ambulance services to a community of approximately 4000 people.

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3
Union Township Lifesquad Inc

Ambulance

Health
4
Owings Mills Volunteer Fire Company of Baltimore County Inc

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

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5
Drug Strategies

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.

Public Benefit
6
Laurel Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc

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.

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7
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
8
Westcare Florida Inc

To provide substance abuse treatment and prevention.

Health
9
Harborcreek Fire Department

To preserve and protect life and property during fires and other emergencies in Harborcreek, PA and vicinity

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services Inc

Volunteer, non-profit organization that provides 911 emergency care to the sick and injured. our primary response area encompasses approximately 70 square miles.

Health
11
Southwest Harbor-Tremont Nursing Se Inc

Emergency ambulance service

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12
Youth With a Mission Pittsburgh Inc

To know god, and make him known

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISMBALTIMORE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGH: $90,000 · OtherBALTIMORE COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHUNC SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MEDIA: $88,500 · OtherUNC SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MEDIA+16 more: $29,610 · Other+16 moreBOND SERVANTS INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesBOND SERVANTS INCHope Villages of America Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesHope Villages of Ame…Araminta Freedom Initiative: $22,264 · Human ServicesAraminta Freedom Ini…JULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HA…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · EducationTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 · HealthULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $700 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $1,200 · Animals
Other$308,110Human Services$78,264Education$20,500Health$10,700Youth Development$10,000Animals$1,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOND SERVANTS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHope Villages of America Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAraminta Freedom Initiative: $22,264 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CRISIS CENTER OF TAMPA BAY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJULIE WEINTRAUB'S HANDS ACROSS THE BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRANKIE'S FRIENDS INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MICHAELS FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetULMAN FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEE STREETS MEMORIAL POST 5118 VFW: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Vinik Family Foundati…Debartolo Family Foun…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vinik Family FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sharoky Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sharoky Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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