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The Sharp 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.
The 32 grants below total $935,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,368,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $432,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION - CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $100,000 |
| LIVE RED FOUNDATION INC | $75,000 |
| YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER RICHMOND | $75,000 |
| COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC | $50,000 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| SWEET MONDAY INC | $25,000 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC | $25,000 |
| SERGE GLOBAL INC | $25,000 |
| LIVE RED FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONS MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 26 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k 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
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $729k · revenue +15%
- CRCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +84%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
- SOSAVE OUR SICK KIDS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -98% · 48% of their budget
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -3%
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) and the most unlike its peers is Live Red Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 57 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 THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIVE RED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SICK KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT ZONE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW COMMUNITY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERGE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds NOVA OF VIRGINIA AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Luck Companies Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Peachtree House Foundation · Honey Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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.
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