· Private foundation
Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVING KITCHEN | $80,181 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM | $28,311 |
| MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $26,154 |
| CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES | $23,600 |
| GCAPP | $20,300 |
| JEWISH HOMELIFE | $20,250 |
| ATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $12,300 |
| BEARINGS BIKE WORKS | $10,375 |
| BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA | $10,195 |
| CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $10,000 |
| HILLELS OF GEORGIA | $9,000 |
| THE DAVIS ACADEMY | $8,600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $313k · revenue +324%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
- JHJewish Home Life Communities Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- UMUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
146 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 146 of the 254 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Home Life Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC ↗
- Who funds HESS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HERON NATURE PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN PARENTING ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds I LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Cooper Family Foundation Inc · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · The Selig Foundation Inc · The Frank Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · V' Al Kol Yisrael Foundation Inc · The Joyce and Ramie Tritt Family 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 organization Luci and Stan Sunshine Family 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.
- Children's Dream Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.