· Private foundation
Sunnen 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $941k
- $250k+1 grant · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF THE OZARKS | $336,026 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH | $230,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ST LOUIS | $225,000 |
| L'ARCHE ST LOUIS | $135,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD - SOUTHEAST | $80,056 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $70,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN | $51,000 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $50,000 |
| BCI INC | $24,000 |
| KIDS IN THE MIDDLE | $20,000 |
| READY READERS | $15,000 |
| SHERWOOD FOREST | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WILD BIRD REHABILITATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $804k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 10 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OFOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $613k · revenue +13%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +26%- TRThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children7× · 2019–2025 · $335k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- GRGATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +10%
- RTRanken Technical Collegegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $28k · revenue +30%
- HHHAVEN HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +55%
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.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Overpopulation threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. population connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a…
The mission of the riverwoods group (trwg) is to plan, coordinate, implement & further the missions of the riverwoods company at exeter new hampshire (rwe), birch hill terrace (bh) dba riverwoods manchester (rwm), riverwoods durham (rwd),…
Children's services
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Path makes good health more accessible in 70+ countries by improving the health care people receive, creating affordable health products, and advancing effective health policies.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 69 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 OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LARCHE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN THE MIDDLE INC ↗
- Who funds FOURCHE VALLEY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CU INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds WILD BIRD REHABILITATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Ranken Technical College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR RESPIRATORY EQUITY ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds Earth Sangha ↗
- Who funds Precept ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds MIO Frontiers ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PRISM 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunnen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunnen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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