Scharf Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 851885465
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2024
- Location
- Davidsonville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 3019961094
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Private Independent Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $81,935
- Expenses
- $124,424
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Private Independent Foundations
What it reported funding in 2024
The foundation reported 17 grants totaling $84,322. The stated grant purposes included emergency care for rescued dogs, equestrian rescue program, and animal rescue, plus 13 other reported purposes.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
- Includes asset-sale income: Asset-sale income is shown separately from recurring resources when classifying the revenue model.
The verdict
MIXED - The filing identifies who received its grants and the filed numbers largely add up. Assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants and the filing reports one or more activities that warrant closer review.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 68
- Transparency: 100
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: 59
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 68; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Yes; rating input score 100
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Fail
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 18.83; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: 100% of grant recipient detail disclosed
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 59th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 59/100.
- Review — Compliance: Part VII-B activity disclosures: Compensation paid to a disqualified person not reported.