· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $785k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Community Foundation Los Ang | $2,000,000 |
| Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc | $500,000 |
| American Friends of Magen David Amo | $500,000 |
| American Friends of Ogen | $250,000 |
| UCLA Foundation | $250,000 |
| Central Fund of Israel | $150,000 |
| Southern Methodist University | $150,000 |
| University of Southern California | $100,000 |
| Central Fund Israel | $100,000 |
| American Friends of the Hebrew Univ | $100,000 |
| CRPA Foundation | $85,000 |
| Kenyon College | $50,000 |
| Second Amendment Law Center | $50,000 |
| U S Vets | $25,000 |
| Vandenberg Coalition | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +8% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TCTHE CRPA FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +20%
- CFCentral Fund of Israel3× · 2023–2025 · $275k · revenue +31%
Southern Methodist University3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +14%
Funded once
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -33%- FFFoundation for Defense of Democracione grant, 2024 · $325k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriffs Youth Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Miracle Theater Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 124 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds THE CRPA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage Youth Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GROWGOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN CHRIST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC ↗
- Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds DEVIL PUPS INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sun Shine On You Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Safe Kids Worldwide — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.