· Private foundation
Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $562k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $250,000 |
| Klezmer by Alicia Svigals LLC | $122,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,226 |
| Individual grant recipient | $103,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $90,220 |
| San Francisco Silent Film Festival | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,919 |
| Individual grant recipient | $49,213 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,389 |
| San Francisco Silent Film Festival | $33,333 |
| Friends of the VATMF | $30,500 |
| Jewish Community of Helsinki | $24,824 |
| Jewish Community of Helsinki | $24,540 |
| Blackhawk Films Inc | $20,000 |
| National Center for Jewish Film Inc | $19,557 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 53% of grant dollars ($2.7M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 47% that went abroad ($2.3M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 47% of all-years giving ($2.3M)
5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $426k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient5× · 2020–2024 · $821k
- SFSan Francisco Silent Film Festival4× · 2020–2024 · $331k
- TMThe Metropolitan Opera2× · 2020–2023 · $308k
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $888k
- HMHEART MOUNTAIN WYOMING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -60%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $61k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 27 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.
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: California Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Center for Jewish Filminc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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