· Private foundation
Sunny Days Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Univ of Virginia Foundations | $2,325 |
| Boys Town Jerusalem | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $868 |
| Worls Central Kitchen | $500 |
| Bot Gardens of the Piedmont | $450 |
| Hadassah | $268 |
| FIRST TEE of the Virginia Blue Ridg | $250 |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank | $200 |
| Paramount Theatre | $150 |
| Individual grant recipient | $118 |
| PMC | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60 |
| VA Discovery Museum | $50 |
| Northwestern Univ | $50 |
| Hope Fund | $50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +176% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BTBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +32%
- BGBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT2× · 2021–2022 · $700 · revenue +822%
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC3× · 2020–2022 · $400 · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UFUVA FUNDSone grant, 2021 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $350 · revenue +49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
As an organization, the institute of food technologists is focusing its work in four main areas, or "roles and goals." each is wide-reaching and helps to advance our mission.steward for the profession and its community - provide learning,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Virginia Alumni Association and the most unlike its peers is National Dance Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Caplin Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Sunny Days Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.