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California · Public charity

Big Sunday

Big Sunday connects people through helping. We offer an enormous variety of opportunities and projects that unite people to improve lives, build community, and give everyone a sense of belonging.

$28k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
4
Organizations funded FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$6,740
Largest grant, FY2021
$9,690
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$8.4M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Onegeneration$9,69010%
Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc$6,74010%
New Directions Inc$6,00010%
Jewish Los Angeles Special Needs Financial Services Inc$5,37511%

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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.

The Ahmanson Foundati…Weingart FoundationCalifornia Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…United Way IncBaby2babyKaiser Foundation Hos…Shelter Partnership I…The Annenberg Foundat…The Rose Hills Founda…Liberty Hill Foundati…Community Partners
The Ahmanson FoundationCA48× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · United Way Inc · Baby2baby · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Community Partners

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Big Sunday

How much does Big Sunday give?
Big Sunday reported 4 grants totaling $27,805 in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Big Sunday fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Human Services (100%).
Who are Big Sunday's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Onegeneration ($10k), Karsh Family Social Service Center Inc ($7k), New Directions Inc ($6k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Big Sunday?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ahmanson Foundation, Weingart Foundation, California Community Foundation.
Where is Big Sunday based?
Big Sunday 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 4 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $455k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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