· Private foundation
The Sharon A Fordham 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WHARTON SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY - WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $2,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATE ALUMNAE OF DOUGLASS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| ST MATTHIAS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| TURNING POINT INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS FOR HEALTH IN HAITI INC | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $1,000 |
| MARY MOTHER OF GOD | $1,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
45 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- FFFriends for Health in Haiti Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +38%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +134%
- BFBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $5k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +84%
- MUMORAVIAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +45%
- FFFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $250 · revenue -87%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Food Bank Network of Somerset County Inc. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 67 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 Friends for Health in Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Associate Alumnae of Douglass College ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ADVOCATES SERVING EVANGELISM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds The Carnegie Hall Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEASTERN LEGAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT INC ↗
- Who funds HELP HOSPITALIZED VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A PLATOON SOLDIER SUPPORT EFFORT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODFINDERINC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HEROBOX INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Sharon A Fordham 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.
- Turning Point Inc — 5% 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.