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Sun Hill Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
0%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 32
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 0% of the organizations Sun Hill Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationEnvironmentSocial ScienceInternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20226$120k0%
FY202132$372k13%
FY202024$325k21%
FY201913$257k8%
FY201824$363k58%
FY201724$332kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$1.1MEducation$342kInternational$120kReligion$110kArts & Culture$65kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$20kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CO
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riverkeeper Inc$354,42062%
Save the Sound$285,00061%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$220,00060%
Friends Seminary$100,0005n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$85,00050%
Monmouth University Inc$37,00030%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$30,00030%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$30,0002n/a
Bank Street College of Education$25,87310%
Skidmore College$22,55720%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Sun Hill Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Riverkeeper Inc$354,42062%
Save the Sound$285,00061%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$220,00060%
Friends Seminary$100,0005n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$85,00050%
Monmouth University Inc$37,00030%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$30,00030%
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion$30,0002n/a
Bank Street College of Education$25,87310%
Skidmore College$22,55720%
Peace Corps$21,7482n/a
Rising Treetops at Oakhurst$20,00040%
Vermont Law School$20,00030%
Newtown Creek Alliance Incorporated$17,52033%
Juniata College$17,50040%
City Harvest Inc$16,00040%
Cornell University$15,00030%
Catskill Mountainkeeper Inc$12,50040%
Hofstra University$12,38930%
Woodstock Area Jewish Community Inc$10,0002n/a
Knowledge Ecology International$10,00021%
Compassion & Choices$10,00020%
Pace University$8,06220%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$6,00030%
New York University$5,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$5,00020%
Gowanus Canal Conservancy Inc$5,00011%
Empire Dragons NYC Inc$5,00014%
Bridgewater Sustainable Earth Foundation Inc$2,50011%
The Carter Center Inc$2,00020%
Center for International Environmental Law Inc$1,00010%
Final Exit Network Inc$1,0001n/a
Environmental Law Institute$1,00010%
Charity Navigator$1,00010%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sun Hill Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRiverkeeper Inc: $354,420 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSave the Sound: $285,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $220,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMonmouth University Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Education Fund: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBank Street College of Education: $25,873 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSkidmore College: $22,557 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRising Treetops at Oakhurst: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVermont Law School: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNewtown Creek Alliance Incorporated: $17,520 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetJuniata College: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatskill Mountainkeeper Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHofstra University: $12,389 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKnowledge Ecology International: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPace University: $8,062 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGowanus Canal Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEmpire Dragons NYC Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBridgewater Sustainable Earth Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for International Environmental Law Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Law Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to Sun Hill Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sun Hill Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sun Hill Family Foundation

How much does Sun Hill Family Foundation give?
Sun Hill Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sun Hill Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (60%), Education (19%), International (7%).
Who are Sun Hill Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Riverkeeper Inc ($354k), Save the Sound ($285k), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($220k).
Does Sun Hill Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sun Hill Family 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 Sun Hill Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Sun Hill Family Foundation based?
Sun Hill Family Foundation is based in NY.

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 48 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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