· Private foundation
Sun 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $295k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIMON FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION | $1,537,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY | $500,000 |
| UC IRVINE FOUNDATION | $252,000 |
| ABOVE & BEYOND TEACHING | $160,000 |
| TIYYA FOUNDATION INC | $150,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO | $120,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT (OCCORD) | $120,000 |
| KIDWORKCOMMUNITYDEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| OCCACC SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICE CTR | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| PROJECT KINSHIP | $100,000 |
| THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER | $100,000 |
| ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE WOODEN FLOOR | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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 CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $980k · revenue +51%
- DFDREAMS FOR SCHOOLS6× · 2019–2024 · $725k · revenue +4% · 27% of their budget
- BKBrackens Kitchen Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $653k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- SCSOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +31%
- CVCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $205k · revenue -20%
- TTIYYAFOUNDATIONINCone grant, 2020 · $143k
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.
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
Octane connects people and ideas with capital and resources to fuel technology growth in orange county. our members represent orange county technology executive leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, venture capitalists, academicians, and…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Asian Pacific Health Care Venture, Inc. is a family of community health centers whose mission is to be the medical home for our patients by providing personalized, quality health care services in a culturally accessible manner.
The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.
California education partners seeds and grows collaborations among california's school systems, so that they innovate, improve, and build internal capacity as learning organizations in order to close gaps and lead high performing,…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
California humanities was founded in 1975 with a defined mission to connect californians to ideas and one another in order to understand our shared heritage and diverse cultures, inspire civic participation, and shape our future.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
Aapi equity alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations that advocates for the rights and needs of the asian and pacific islander (api) community in the greater los angeles area, with particular focus on low-income, immigrant,…
How this is measured
84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 159 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 ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANAHEIM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DREAMS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOODEN FLOOR FOR YOUTH MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds Brackens Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds TIYYA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Above & Beyond Teaching formerly - Carlston Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST CHINESE CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KINSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN SENIOR CITIZENS SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE MOONRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AGING - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Charitable Ventures of Orange County · The Devto Support Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · Weingart Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Oneoc · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sun Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sun Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
How this is measured
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