California · Nonprofit
Sharp and Fine
Sharp and Fine (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,532 to it, the largest being KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Sharp and Fine does
Mission
Sharp and Fines purpose is to present create and engage in dance and theatrical performances related arts education programs and other supportive activities and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Sharp & Fine premiered an immersive performance at Golden Gate Parks Japanese Tea Garden for 5 dancers and 3 musicians. The event was free and open to all garden visitors. We presented 6 performances over 2 days. Sharp & Fine also began developing a new evening-length work for 6 dancers 5 musicians and a composer that will premiere in October 2026.
$32,991 spent94% of program spendingSharp & Fine was commissioned to create choreography for Robert Mosess Kin 30th anniversary home season and Kunoichi Productions Pacific Overtures. Seen by approximately 3,000 audience members.
$1,740 spent5% of program spendingSharp & Fine created 2 workshops for dancers. 18 workshop attendees and 3 teaching artists
$520 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,251.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $73k to $137k (+89%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of Sharp and Fine’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Katharine Hersh
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Sharp and Fine’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Sharp and Fine leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Sharp and Fine's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Sharp and Fine runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sharp and Fine
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sharp and Fine: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Sharp and Fine?
- Sharp and Fine (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,532 to it, the largest being KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sharp and Fine have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,532 in grants to Sharp and Fine, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sharp and Fine?
- KENNETH RAININ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sharp and Fine find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing