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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.

$6k
Granted FY2022
15
Grants FY2022
15
Organizations funded FY2022
53%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$200
Largest grant, FY2022
$2,325
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 53% of the organizations Sunny Days Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
EnvironmentFood & NutritionInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202215$6k53%
FY202112$3k83%
FY202012$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$3kReligion$2kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Benefit$1kHealth$868Food & Nutrition$800Public Safety & Disaster$800Environment$800Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sunny Days Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBotanical Garden of the Piedmont: $700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Ridge Area Food Bank Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paramount Theater Foundation in F/K/A the Paramount Theater Inc: $225 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoaves & Fishes Food Pantry Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Dance Institute: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Virginia Alumni Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Wilderness League: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Food Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Caplin FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Sunny Days Charitable Foundation

How much does Sunny Days Charitable Foundation give?
Sunny Days Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $6,439 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Sunny Days Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (20%), Religion (18%), Philanthropy (15%).
Who are Sunny Days Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Boys Town Jerusalem Foundation of America ($2k), Botanical Garden of the Piedmont ($700), World Central Kitchen Inc ($500).
Does Sunny Days Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sunny Days Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sunny Days Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Caplin Foundation, The Genan Foundation, Charlottesville Area Community Foundation.
Where is Sunny Days Charitable Foundation based?
Sunny Days Charitable Foundation is based in VA.

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 30 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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