· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $100,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY | $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 |
| OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC | $25,000 |
| SWEET MONDAY INC | $25,000 |
| SERGE GLOBAL INC | $25,000 |
| LIVE RED FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL2× · 2021–2022 · $979k · revenue +15%
- CRCristo Rey Richmond High School Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +84%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SOSAVE OUR SICK KIDS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -98% · 95% of their budget
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +18%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
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).
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How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR SICK KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- 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 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 NOVA OF VIRGINIA AQUATICS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA WAR MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELIJAH HOUSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
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