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Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $885k
- $250k+2 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SMITH COLLEGE | $300,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE | $250,000 |
| SPARK THE JOURNEY | $200,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| WAMU | $150,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $75,000 |
| WETA | $75,000 |
| PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING | $75,000 |
| NEW FUTURES | $60,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| FAIR OBSERVER | $25,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $21,560 |
| THE NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT | $10,000 |
| MAGNUM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +31%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +153%
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CHRONIC TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURYone grant, 2023 · $50k
The Rand Corporationone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +11%- TFTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +123%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smile & Olive Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 45 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 THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SPARK THE JOURNEY ↗
- Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE & OLIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNUM CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fair Observer ↗
- Who funds LATIN AMERICAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Youth Invest Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE DIRECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO EDWIN GROSVENOR ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The Rossotti Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Choksi Family Charitable Trust · Citybridge Foundation · Harman Family Foundation · Galena-Yorktown Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Clark-Winchcole 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 Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.
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