· Private foundation
Sun Moon and Stars Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS College | $157,500 |
| THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Gida's Club of South Florida Inc | $2,500 |
| Memorial Hospital | $1,500 |
| Nantucket Shellfish Association | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +50% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +50%
Trustees of Tufts College2× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +50%- MFMEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2022 · $100k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TWTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
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…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The primary purpose of the h. lee moffitt cancer center and research institute hospital, inc. ("hospital") is to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POIEMA MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sun Moon and Stars Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sun Moon and Stars Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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