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Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$397k
Granted FY2024still arriving
69
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$400kReligion$386kHuman Services$323kHealth$259kEducation$201kInternational$160kArts & Culture$135kFood & Nutrition$111kOther$0
02FY2024 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k56 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$568
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $103 → 22%ASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE: $200 → 9%GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $104 → 10%ADULT DISABILITY MEDICAL HEALTHCARE: $415 → 8%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $2k → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $526 → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $257 → 14%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $257 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AUSTIN DIAPER BANK: $263 → 10%GCAPP: $20k → 8%GCAPP: $10k → 8%FLATWATER FOUNDATION: $104 → 10%CHRIS 180: $100 → 14%KATES CLUB: $500 → 14%KATES CLUB: $263 → 14%KATE'S CLUB: $258 → 14%KATES CLUB: $210 → 14%KATES CLUB: $100 → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $26k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $4k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $10k → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $10k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $10k → 13%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE WORKS: $10k → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%BEARINGS BIKE SHOP: $300 → 13%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES: $3k → 14%MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CAREER SERVICES: $510 → 14%SANDY SPRING POLICE BENEVOLENT FUND: $500 → 13%RESPITE CARE ATLANTA: $50 → 13%NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS: $500 → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $500 → 13%WEINSTEIN HOSPICE: $500 → 13%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
CO
KY
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
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.
$2.1M · 107 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
123

Total granted

$2.1M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+31%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TG
    THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $313k · revenue +324%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • JH
    Jewish Home Life Communities Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $134k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +55%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF INMAN PARK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -42%
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
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
2
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
6
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
7
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
10
Association of Clinical Research Professionals

Acrp promotes excellence in clinical research. we support clinical research professionals through training and development, the exchange of ideas and expertise, and certification. we serve as the preferred source for quality tools,…

Health
11
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
12
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grady Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bosleys Place Inc. 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

146 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. 146 of the 254 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/146
Grantees still filing
104/146
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM INC: $256,101 · OtherCONGREGATION ETZ CHAIM INCTHE EPSTEIN SCHOOL: $92,246 · OtherTHE EPSTEIN SCHOOLATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $83,500 · OtherATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVALCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH WOMEN'S FUND OF ATLANTA: $37,590 · OtherMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $56,000 · Other+142 more: $538,912 · Other+142 moreTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $313,331 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITI…THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCIN…+13 more: $41,298 · Philanthropy+13 moreCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $91,100 · Human ServicesCREATING CO…MARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $46,362 · Human ServicesMARCUS JEWI…BEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $40,675 · Human ServicesBEARINGS BI…Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $30,300 · Human ServicesGeorgia Cam…JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $19,795 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMI…+9 more: $8,055 · Human ServicesMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,310 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $35,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,500 · InternationalARCHANGELS PROJECT: $10,000 · International+4 more: $8,950 · InternationalJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $134,302 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $128 · Housing & ShelterHESS ACADEMY INC: $49,595 · EducationTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $21,410 · EducationTHE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,345 · EducationAtlanta Speech School Inc: $3,500 · Education+5 more: $2,129 · EducationAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $70,947 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,896 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $4,033 · Civil Rights+1 more: $210 · Civil Rights
Other$1,114,349Philanthropy$504,629Human Services$236,287International$164,760Housing & Shelter$134,430Education$81,979Civil Rights$80,086

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $313,331 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Home Life Communities Inc: $134,302 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCREATING CONNECTED COMMUNITIES INC: $91,100 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $85,310 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $70,947 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC: $56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHESS ACADEMY INC: $49,595 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMARCUS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF ATLANTA INC: $46,362 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBEARINGS BIKE SHOP INC: $40,675 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $34,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $30,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES OF METRO ATLANTA INC: $25,195 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $22,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE HERON NATURE PRESERVE INC: $21,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $21,410 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN PARENTING: $20,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES INC: $19,795 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC: $19,430 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetI LIVE HERE I GIVE HERE: $15,103 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $13,472 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF INMAN PARK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $7,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $7,600 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCARITAS OF AUSTIN: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM AUSTIN: $6,780 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $5,345 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $4,896 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACING OUR DIFFERENCES INC: $4,288 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $4,182 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $4,033 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFernbank Inc: $3,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC: $3,567 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN - ATLANTA SECTION INC: $3,040 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP PERIMETER INC: $1,730 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% 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 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 FRIENDS OF INMAN PARK INC ↗

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.

The Community Foundat…Jewish Federation of …The Imlay Foundation …Cooper Family Foundat…The Marcus Foundation…Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…The Selig Foundation …The Frank Family Foun…Georgia Power Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…V' Al Kol Yisrael Fou…The Joyce and Ramie T…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA45.1× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luci and Stan Sunshine Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Children's Dream Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 254 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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