Michigan · Private foundation
Sonshine at Knight Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $321k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Sonshine at Knight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $15k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $15k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $13k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $11k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $11k | 22% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $13,300 | 6 | 0% |
| The Luke Commission | $11,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc | $9,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $8,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Shelter | $3,800 | 2 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $2,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $13,300 | 6 | 0% |
| The Luke Commission | $11,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc | $9,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $8,800 | 7 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Shelter | $3,800 | 2 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $3,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc | $2,950 | 6 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Boulder Crest Foundation | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kinderhaven Inc | $1,750 | 4 | 1% |
| K9 Konnection | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Action International Ministries | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| George Fox University | $750 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sonshine at Knight Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sonshine at Knight Foundation
- How much does Sonshine at Knight Foundation give?
- Sonshine at Knight Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Sonshine at Knight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Animals (20%), International (15%).
- Who are Sonshine at Knight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Friends of the Shelter Inc dba Better Together Animal Alliance ($14k), Gary Sinise Foundation ($13k), The Luke Commission ($11k).
- Does Sonshine at Knight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sonshine at Knight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sonshine at Knight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sonshine at Knight Foundation based?
- Sonshine at Knight Foundation is based in MI.
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