· Private foundation
The Tharpe 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LOVETT SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAM CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $2,000 |
| EXTRA SPECIAL PEOPLE INC | $1,165 |
| CULVER EDUCATIONAL FDN | $1,000 |
| KENYAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| KANSAS STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ROME HISTORIC GOLF PRESERVATION | $1,000 |
| TIGERS UNLIMITED | $1,000 |
| WAYPOINT MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| DARLINGTON SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GRACE MARIETTA CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDarlington School Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +46%
- JHJoy House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +0%
- LFLighthouse Family Retreat Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- ACATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +50%
- BRBETHANYS REST INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
The mission of augusta health is to strengthen the health and well-being of all people in our communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Our mission is to help people keep well in body, mind, and spirit by providing quality health care services in a safe, compassionate environment.
We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 65 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 Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Joy House Inc ↗
- Who funds Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LOVETT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Extra Special People Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ADAPTIVE LEARNING CENTER FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Prodigal Child Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMESTRETCH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANYS REST INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF HARRIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tharpe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tharpe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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