· Private foundation
Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIVIDUAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $152,500 |
| KERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT | $41,000 |
| EASTSIDE STUDENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| MAMMOTH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN INYO HEALTHCARE DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO | $18,500 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| BISHOP SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIF SANTA BARBARA | $12,000 |
| MONO COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE | $11,000 |
| INYO COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE | $11,000 |
| NORTHERN INYO HOSPITAL AUXILIARY | $10,314 |
| UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS | $10,000 |
| CAL STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIV SLO | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
78 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +3%
- NINorthern Inyo Hospital Auxiliary4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +4%
- CMCHAMBER MUSIC UNBOUND3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SPSCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMSone grant, 2018 · $95k
- MHMammoth Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +219%
- HTHEALTHCARE TRUST OF MAMMOTH LAKESone grant, 2017 · $20k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Whittier College is a residential four-year liberal arts institution that prepares students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society. Through challenging, interactive courses, taught by accomplished professors,…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 128 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EASTERN SIERRA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE STUDENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Inyo Hospital Auxiliary ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC UNBOUND ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mammoth Hospital Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald M Slager Sunset Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 12% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
- Endicott College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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