California · Private foundation
Sun Shine On You 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.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $40M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Sun Shine On You Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 | 28 | $4.1M | 39% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $2.6M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.3M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $281k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $808k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $479k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $452k | 57% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilshire Boulevard Temple | $1,237,560 | 9 | n/a |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $1,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Crpa Foundation | $370,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Second Amendment Law Center Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 84% |
| Central Fund of Israel | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Southern Methodist University | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 85 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sun Shine On You Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Cedars-Sinai Medical Center · Shelter Partnership Inc · The Ahmanson Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Sun Shine On You Foundation
- How much does Sun Shine On You Foundation give?
- Sun Shine On You Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $4,456,780 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sun Shine On You Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (19%), Education (19%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Sun Shine On You Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wilshire Boulevard Temple ($1.2M), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($1.0M), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($600k).
- Does Sun Shine On You Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sun Shine On You 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 Shine On You Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles, California Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is Sun Shine On You Foundation based?
- Sun Shine On You Foundation is based in CA.
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