· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| SPARK THE JOURNEY | $200,000 |
| WAMU | $150,000 |
| WETA | $75,000 |
| PULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING | $75,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +163%
- TBTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION7× · 2018–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR CHRONIC TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- TFTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +123%
The Rand Corporationone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of the washington internship institute is to foster students' intellectual, personal, and professional development through individually tailored, quality internships and challenging academic coursework that take full advantage…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 45 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 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 FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TURNAROUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY CO EDWIN GROSVENOR ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunrise Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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