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.

Sun Hill Family Foundation

Sun Hill Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2022

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k2 grants · $10k
$10k–50k5 grants · $110k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST John Historical Society	$25,000
Riverkeeper Inc	$25,000
Save the Sound	$20,000
Connecticut Fund for the Environment	$20,000
Friends Seminary	$20,000
Natural Resources Defense Council	$5,000
City Harvest	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, 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.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.7M · 34 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 28 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.7M

$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+43%

Still filing today

62%

64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentInternationalHealthFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

RI
RIVERKEEPER INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $354k · revenue +34%
ST
SAVE THE SOUND
6× · 2017–2022 · $285k · revenue +93%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $220k · revenue +41%

Funded once

HU
Howard Unversity School of Medicine
one grant, 2018 · $31k
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +38%
DF
Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

Ie New York College

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Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education

University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Climate Institute

The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…

Environment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education

Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bank Street College of Education; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

30 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. 30 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

27/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$925,440Other$549,551Education$163,381International$93,000Food & Nutrition$16,000Health$12,000Social Science$10,000

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.

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 →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Sun Hill Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sun Hill Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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