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· Private foundation

Lapan Memorial Sunshine Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$707k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.0MArts & Culture$316kHuman Services$252kRecreation & Sports$226kHealth$69kCommunity Improvement$59kYouth Development$37kPhilanthropy$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $538k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$4,538
Median grant
8
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASU FOUNDATION$707,412
LAPAN COLLEGE AND CAREER CLUB$394,200
VARIOUS$239,876
DISCOVERY CHILDRENS MUSEUM$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$83,025
PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$62,500
TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$52,200
ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC$48,330
PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE$35,695
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$27,702
TUCSON CONQUISTADORES$16,000
GOOTER FOUNDATION$10,775
CENTURIONS$6,000
EL RIO HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$6,000
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA - TUCSON$5,899
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $52k → 15%TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $18k → 15%OCJ KIDS: $5k → 11%GABRIEL'S ANGELS: $2k → 11%EMPOWER COALITION: $11k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $48k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $44k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $21k → 15%ANGEL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN INC: $6k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $200 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
NM
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.5M · 61 repeat orgs$580k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
70

Total granted

$6.5M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+26%

Still filing today

43%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $421k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +51%
  • AC
    Angel Charity for Children Inc
    6× · 2018–2024 · $143k · revenue +56%
  • GC
    Grand Canyon University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • AW
    ALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -87%
  • UW
    UP WITH PEOPLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -97%
  • EC
    EMPOWER COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Arcadia University

Arcadia university's pioneering, global, integrated, liberal arts, and professional learning experience cultivates leaders who are intellectually fearless and uniquely prepared for life and work. our highly regarded, values-based learning…

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Lehigh University

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…

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco; the most unlike its peers is Gates Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 148 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
40/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $1,526,741 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAVARIOUS: $819,920 · OtherVARIOUSPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $435,954 · OtherPIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGETUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT: $266,405 · OtherTUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $244,125 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY+104 more: $638,539 · Other+104 moreARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,722,859 · EducationARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…Grand Canyon University: $99,463 · Education+17 more: $134,954 · Education+17 moreLAPAN COLLEGE & CAREER CLUB INC: $394,200 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $209,000 · Arts & CultureFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureUP WITH PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $11,729 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $375 · Arts & CultureAngel Charity for Children Inc: $143,215 · Human ServicesTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,200 · Human ServicesEMPOWER COALITION INC: $10,500 · Human Services+3 more: $9,200 · Human ServicesSUN ANGEL FOUNDATION: $150,546 · PhilanthropyEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTURIONS: $18,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $6,500 · PhilanthropyTucson Conquistadores Inc: $65,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $1,100 · Community Improvement
Other$3,931,684Education$1,957,276Youth Development$394,200Arts & Culture$316,104Human Services$233,115Philanthropy$222,046Community Improvement$66,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,722,859 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAPAN COLLEGE & CAREER CLUB INC: $394,200 over 1y, 74% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $209,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSUN ANGEL FOUNDATION: $150,546 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAngel Charity for Children Inc: $143,215 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $99,463 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $70,200 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTucson Conquistadores Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetPUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $63,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION: $30,100 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CENTURIONS: $18,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTucson Girls Chorus Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBowdoin College: $14,964 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUP WITH PEOPLE FOUNDATION: $11,729 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMPOWER COALITION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $9,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $9,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $7,202 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCJ KIDS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $4,842 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $4,815 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $2,352 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGABRIELS ANGELS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $1,951 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN P BELL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetGATES FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAM VOLUNTEERS: $1,062 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $1,034 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION IMPACT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $672 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORO VALLEY FAST PITCH SOFTBALL: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetIntegrative Touch: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAPAN COLLEGE & CAREER CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SUN ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Angel Charity for Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
  • Who funds FOX TUCSON THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Tucson Conquistadores Inc ↗
  • Who funds PUSCH RIDGE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALL WAYS UP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTURIONS ↗
  • Who funds Tucson Girls Chorus Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds UP WITH PEOPLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds PET PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …The Hs Lopez Family F…Arizona Community Fou…Ginny L Clements Char…Jewish Community Foun…The Roy H Rogers Foun…Connie Hillman Family…You Got This Foundati…Tucson Medical CenterAngel Charity for Chi…Banner HealthThe Diane and Bruce H…
Community Foundation for Southern ArizonaAZ27.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Ginny L Clements Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Roy H Rogers Foundation Trust · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · You Got This Foundation · Tucson Medical Center · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Banner Health · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lapan Memorial Sunshine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lapan Memorial Sunshine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 148 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home