How much did DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

youthsierracal sancancer

2019

youthsierracal polytechnic

2020

cal polytechnic

2021

cal polytechnic

2022

san diego

2023

santasan diegoirvine

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k20 grants · $96k
$10k–50k13 grants · $208k
$50k–250k1 grant · $168k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants

INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$167,500
KERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$30,000
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY$25,000
NORTHERN INYO HEALTHCARE DISTRICT$20,000
MAMMOTH HOSPITAL$20,000
EASTSIDE STUDENT CENTER$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO$15,000
BISHOP SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIF SANTA BARBARA$12,500
WESTMONT COLLEGE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS$10,000
CAL STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV SLO$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY$10,000
NORTHERN INYO HOSPITAL AUXILIARY$10,000
INYO COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE$7,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.3M · 74 repeat orgs$357k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+39%

Still filing today

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY
8× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +81%
UM
UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES
8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +11%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MERCED
3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +405%

Funded once

SP
SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS
one grant, 2018 · $95k
MH
MAMMOTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +156%
HT
HEALTHCARE TRUST OF MAMMOTH LAKES
one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

La Sierra University

To educate undergraduate and graduate students; to promote research and instruction in multiple areas; and to contribute to the good of the larger society.

Education

Sierra Nevada College

To combine the liberal arts and professional preparedness through an interdisciplinary curriculum.

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California State University Fresno

The auxiliary organization was formed to operate and manage division i intercollegiate athletic programs at california state university, fresno.

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California State University Fresno

Student Services California State University, Fresno

Education

Pitzer College

Pitzer College is an educational institution focusing on undergraduate education.

Education

Pacific University

A diverse sustainable community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship, and practice, pacific inspires students to think, care, and pursue justice in our world

Education

California State University Dominguez

The organization's primary purpose is to assist csu, dominguez hills in various activities.

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Claremont Graduate University

A private, independent, nonprofit institution of higher learning that is a high research activity university awarding master's and doctoral degrees within its five schools and three independent departments.

Education

Pacific Union College

Seventh-day adventist college providing christ-centered education.

Education

Saint Mary's College of California

An institution of higher education that grants associate, baccalaureate, and masters degrees in liberal arts, science, business administration and education, as well as a doctorate in education.

Education

Pomona College

Pomona college is widely regarded as one of the world's leading liberal arts colleges, offering an ideal environment for intellectually curious students to pursue their academic and life goals.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Eastside Student Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/44

the rest of the field

12%

22,289/186,934

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/40

Grantees still filing

29/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,921,915Education$475,000Health$114,000Youth Development$55,000Arts & Culture$49,800Environment$15,000Animals$7,500Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA4.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 770578535 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

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Find your warmest path to Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation?

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DONALD M SLAGER SUNSET FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation?

More from the funding graph