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Big Sun Foundation Inc

Big Sun is dedicated to assisting and facilitating more sustainable communal living throughout the world. The Organization works to provide funding, operational support and services to Community Land Trusts, Co-ops and other motivated groups committed to forging such communities and opportunities in their area. Its FY2024 filing reports…

$12k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$9k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$35kYouth Development$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Feed Our Streets$35,000219%
Avalon Village Inc$7,00011%

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About Big Sun Foundation Inc

How much does Big Sun Foundation Inc give?
Big Sun Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $12,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Big Sun Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (83%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Big Sun Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Feed Our Streets ($35k), Avalon Village Inc ($7k).
Does Big Sun Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Big Sun Foundation Inc based?
Big Sun Foundation Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 2 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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