· Private foundation
Sunflower Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRACY FUND | $5,000 |
| WORKER POWER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| TOXICS ACTION CENTER | $5,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HELSINKI FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SABEEL NORTH AMERICA | $3,000 |
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES | $3,000 |
| CLEMENTE COURSE IN THE HUMANITIES INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Sunflower Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNew Hampshire Democracy Fund3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +64%
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2022 · $13k · revenue ×22
Midwest Academy2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +759%
Funded once
- CCASEone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FTFREE THE SLAVESgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +46%
CASA INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +54%
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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
Fuerza Laboral is a workers' rights center whose mission is to shift the balance of power in our economy in favor of workers by educating, training, and organizing workers to become community leaders; taking direct action to recover unpaid…
To provide high quality civil legal assistance and other services to indigent individuals and families.
The organization serves as a coalition of labor organizations, community groups, faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people. To this end, the corporation shall engage in organizing…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
The puente human rights movement is a migrant worker justice foundation based in phoenix, az. we develop, educate, and empower migrant communities to protect and defend our families and ourselves.
To champion human dignity by designing the solutions to the social problems that infringe upon it.
Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…
We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 56 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 INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Democracy Fund ↗
- Who funds WORKER POWER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER COLORADO ↗
- Who funds AMOS RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Midwest Academy ↗
- Who funds KCBX INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS EDUCATION SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSPOETRY INC ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JITEGEMEE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPI FOUNDATION LOMASUMI'NANGWTUKWSIWMANI ↗
- Who funds FREE THE SLAVES ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunflower Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunflower Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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