California · Private foundation
Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $521k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $152,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $511k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $466k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $474k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $485k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $360k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $409k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $440k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $489k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kern Community College District | $256,000 | 9 | n/a |
| University of California- Davis | $145,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Eastern Sierra Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Eastside Student Center | $75,000 | 4 | 11% |
| University of Redlands | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Methodist Social Services Inc | $43,500 | 9 | 13% |
| Northern Inyo Hospital Auxiliary | $40,314 | 4 | 17% |
| Regents Univ of California | $35,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Westmont College | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $25,000 | 9 | n/a |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 73 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Margaret Pillsbury Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation
- How much does Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation give?
- Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $520,814 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (84%), Health (5%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
- Who are Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kern Community College District ($256k), University of California- Davis ($145k), Eastern Sierra Foundation ($75k).
- Does Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Margaret Pillsbury Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation based?
- Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation is based in CA.
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