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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Philanthropy$2.7MEducation$2.6MReligion$2.4MInternational$2.0MHealth$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$640kCrime & Legal$587kRecreation & Sports$438kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $785k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.5M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Community Foundation Los Ang$2,000,000
American Friends of Magen David Amo$500,000
Zaka Tel-Aviv Inc$500,000
American Friends of Ogen$250,000
UCLA Foundation$250,000
Central Fund of Israel$150,000
Southern Methodist University$150,000
Central Fund Israel$100,000
University of Southern California$100,000
American Friends of the Hebrew Univ$100,000
CRPA Foundation$85,000
Kenyon College$50,000
Second Amendment Law Center$50,000
Vandenberg Coalition$25,000
U S Vets$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Kesem: $3k → 14%Drew Child Development Corporation: $2k → 14%Vets Corps Inc: $10k → 14%Vets Corps Inc: $3k → 14%Drug Awareness Foundation: $21k → 14%Drug Awareness Foundation: $10k → 14%GrowGood Inc: $60k → 14%Grow Good Inc: $10k → 14%GrowGood Inc: $10k → 14%U S Vets: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
VA
TN
SC
DC
TX
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.3M · 46 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
64

Total granted

$8.3M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+8%

Still filing today

59%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $941k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • CF
    Central Fund of Israel
    3× · 2023–2025 · $275k · revenue +31%
  • Southern Methodist University
    3× · 2023–2025 · $250k · revenue +14%
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2022 · $196k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +11%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -33%
  • FF
    Foundation for Defense of Democraci
    one grant, 2024 · $325k
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.

1
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
2
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
3
Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Trust

Supporting families of fallen law enforcement officers

Human Services
4
The L a Fire Department Scholarship Fund
Education
5
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
6
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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7
Los Angeles Medical Center Foundation
Health
8
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
Forbadges
Health
10
Usc Health System

The Corporation is a nonprofit public benefit corporation and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The Corporation is…

Health
11
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
12
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriffs Youth Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 124 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
45/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Jewish Community Foundation Los Ang: $2,500,000 · OtherJewish Community Foundation Los AngWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE: $1,237,560 · OtherWILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLEAmerican Israel Educational Foundat: $900,000 · OtherAmerican Israel Educational FoundatFoundation for Defense of Democraci: $325,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC: $250,000 · Other+75 more: $1,691,732 · Other+75 moreUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,518,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHE…Southern Methodist University: $250,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist U…UCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $196,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCH…THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $157,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR EARLY…KENYON COLLEGE: $125,000 · Education+3 more: $10,875 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $600,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE …JEWISH NATIONAL FUND-USA INC: $300,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…Central Fund of Israel: $275,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $105,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIEND…+2 more: $75,000 · InternationalCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 · HealthCEDARS-SI…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 · HealthCure Sanfilippo Foundation: $50,000 · Health+7 more: $29,000 · HealthZaka Tel-Aviv Inc: $500,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $150,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $14,000 · PhilanthropySECOND AMENDMENT LAW CENTER INC: $275,000 · Crime & LegalSafe Passage Youth Foundation: $175,000 · Crime & LegalLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Crime & LegalWEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF FOUNDATION: $17,500 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $16,200 · Crime & LegalTHE CRPA FOUNDATION: $370,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $18,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$6,904,292Education$2,506,875International$1,855,000Health$1,129,000Philanthropy$664,000Crime & Legal$503,700Recreation & Sports$388,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,518,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CRPA FOUNDATION: $370,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSECOND AMENDMENT LAW CENTER INC: $275,000 over 5y, 84% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $275,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $196,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Passage Youth Foundation: $175,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $157,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $151,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGROWGOOD INC: $80,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFAITH IN CHRIST MINISTRIES: $58,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Sanfilippo Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDEVIL PUPS INC: $36,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $33,168 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDRUG AWARENESS FOUNDATION: $30,750 over 2y, 39% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES SHERIFFS FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE MIRACLE THEATER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWEST HOLLYWOOD SHERIFF FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetBEVERLY HILLS POLICE OFFICERS ASSN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMCHA Initiative: $15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVETS CORPS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 43% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLA SHERIFF RESERVE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetTHE SAMUEL AND BARBARA MASKET FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe MACA Foundation INC: $7,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAlhambra Police Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetCRESTVIEW PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEND OVERDOSE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED STATES ADAPTIVE RECREATION CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVENTURA SHERIFF K-9 FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDUSTRY SHERIFF'S YOUTH ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 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 Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Cure Sanfilippo Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DEVIL PUPS INC ↗
  • Who funds SHERIFFS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Jewish Community Foun…Cedars-Sinai Medical …Shelter Partnership I…The Ahmanson Foundati…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationJewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…American Gift Fund
Jewish Community Foundation of Los AngelesCA23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Shine On You Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sun Shine On You Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 124 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home