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Sunny Days Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Univ of Virginia Foundations$2,325
Boys Town Jerusalem$1,000
Cong Beth Israel$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
Hope Fund$50
VA Discovery Museum$50
Northwestern Univ$50
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 28% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAN MASS CHALLENGE: $350 → 7%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $50 → 17%Worls Central Kitchen: $500 → 14%Northwestern Univ: $50 → 14%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK NJ: $100 → 10%PBS-VPM Media: $60 → 7%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $100 → 8%CONG BETH ISRAEL: $1k → 8%PMC: $100 → 7%Boys Town Jerusalem: $1k → 17%ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $100 → 14%THE BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK: $100 → 8%Cong Beth Israel: $868 → 8%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM: $1k → 17%CHARLOTTESVILLE AREA COMM FNDT: $200 → 8%Hadassah: $268 → 17%VA DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $200 → 8%Hadassah: $118 → 17%Paramount Theatre: $150 → 8%NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $100 → 17%Cong Beth Israel: $100 → 8%ROCKFISH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $100 → 8%UVA GENERAL FUND: $100 → 8%PARAMOUNT THEATER: $75 → 8%VA Discovery Museum: $50 → 8%Univ of Virginia Foundations: $2k → 8%FIRST TEE of the Virginia Blue Ridg: $250 → 8%Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: $200 → 8%Jefferson School Afr Amer Herit: $100 → 8%UVA FUNDS: $1k → 8%Hope Fund: $50 → 8%UVA ALUMNI ASSOC: $100 → 8%Loaves and Fishes: $200 → 8%MARTHA JEFFERSON HOSPITAL FNDT: $100 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6k · 7 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +176% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
15

Total granted

$6k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+176%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • BG
    BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT
    2× · 2021–2022 · $700 · revenue +822%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $400 · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • UF
    UVA FUNDS
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $500
  • PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $350 · revenue +49%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
5
The James Beard Foundation Inc

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…

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6
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
7
University of Virginia Foundation

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…

Education
8
Vermont Foodbank

To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.

Food & Nutrition
9
Arcadia Food Inc

Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.

Food & Nutrition
10
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

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.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
Institute of Food Technologists

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Virginia Alumni Association; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONG BETH ISRAEL: $2,336 · OtherCONG BETH ISRAELUniv of Virginia Foundations: $2,325 · OtherUniv of Virginia FoundationsUVA FUNDS: $1,025 · OtherUVA FUNDSIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC: $400 · OtherHadassah: $386 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $350 · Other+14 more: $1,628 · Other+14 moreBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $2,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS TOWN JERUSAL…BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $700 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $100 · EnvironmentWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · InternationalTHE PARAMOUNT THEATER FOUNDATION IN F/K/A THE PARAMOUNT THEATER INC: $225 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE: $100 · Arts & CultureLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC: $200 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK: $100 · Food & NutritionUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $100 · Education
Other$8,950Philanthropy$2,000Environment$800International$500Arts & Culture$325Food & Nutrition$300Education$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 FoundationThe Genan FoundationCharlottesville Area …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sunny Days Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunny Days Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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