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Suna Family Foundation at a glance

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Suna Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$948k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.0MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$241kPhilanthropy$102kHuman Services$56kAnimals$45kFood & Nutrition$16kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $305k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$500,000
QUEENS MUSEUM$245,000
QUEENS MUSEUM$60,250
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE$25,000
MONTEFIORE EINSTEIN$25,000
UJA FEDERATION NEW YORK$25,000
OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER$15,000
CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION$10,000
SPCA WESTCHESTER$10,000
JCCA$10,000
OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION$10,000
RETHINK FOUNDATION$6,000
RENEW QUEENS INC$6,000
SUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 9%RENEW QUEENS INC: $6k → 13%OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 9%OSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER: $15k → 9%QUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $2k → 13%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 9%OSSINING FOOD PANTRY: $5k → 9%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 11 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$3.5M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+17%

Still filing today

82%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • Cornell University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +23%
  • QM
    QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +74%
  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • MM
    MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +17%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
  • OO
    OSSINING OPEN DOOR MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $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.

1
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
11
Newyork-Presbyterianbrooklyn Methodist

To provide excellent healthcare services without regard to age, sex, race, creed, national origin or disability; to serve as an educational and research center for physicians, nurses and healthcare professionals; to provide health…

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12
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Door Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $2,020,000 · EducationCornell UniversityQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,060,250 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ARTCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthMontefiore Einstein Inc: $25,000 · HealthMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $101,800 · PhilanthropyOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropySPCA: $20,000 · OtherJCCA: $20,000 · OtherRETHINK FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherOSSINING OPEN DOOR MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL: $5,000 · OtherLONG ISLAND CITY GOSPEL CHURCH INC DBA CENTER OF HOPE INT'L: $5,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $4,800 · OtherOSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesOssining Food Pantry: $10,000 · Human ServicesRENEW QUEENS INC: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $25,000 · Animals
Education$2,020,000Arts & Culture$1,060,250Health$220,000Philanthropy$116,800Other$70,800Human Services$62,500Animals$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $2,020,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,060,250 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $101,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOSSINING CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMontefiore Einstein Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA OF WESTCHESTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOssining Food Pantry: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRENEW QUEENS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS COMMUNITY HOUSE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYSIDE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYAN PERRY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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 Communal FundThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Suna Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suna Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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