Missouri · Private foundation
Sunnen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $336,026
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Sunnen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 30 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $956k | 34% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.0M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $604k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $756k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $837k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $595k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operation Food Search Inc | $613,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc | $392,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children | $335,155 | 7 | 0% |
| Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Larche St Louis | $235,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Home Sweet Home | $200,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Rainbow Village Inc | $185,000 | 5 | 17% |
| Casa of St Louis | $175,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Kids in the Middle Inc | $120,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Fourche Valley Charitable Trust | $74,500 | 3 | 21% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sunnen Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pott Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · St Louis Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pershing Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Sunnen Foundation
- How much does Sunnen Foundation give?
- Sunnen Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,435,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sunnen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (40%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are Sunnen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Operation Food Search Inc ($613k), Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc ($393k), The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ($335k).
- Does Sunnen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunnen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sunnen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc, Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation.
- Where is Sunnen Foundation based?
- Sunnen Foundation is based in MO.
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