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Sunrise Foundation of America at a glance

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Sunrise Foundation of America

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$51kInternational$31kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$11kEducation$8kHousing & Shelter$5kArts & Culture$4kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$514k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$6,500
HUMANITARIAN AID FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST$1,960
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$1,000
WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SAVE THE CHILDREN$500
UTAH FOOD BANK$500
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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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANVASBACK MISSIONS INC: $7k → 10%BURRITO BRIGADE: $2k → 12%BURRITO BRIGADE: $1k → 15%WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES: $500 → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
OR
CT
CA
UT
KY
HI
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$104k · 9 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
18

Total granted

$104k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
-11%

Still filing today

44%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +93%
  • BB
    BURRITO BRIGADE
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +324%
  • CA
    Community Action Services and Food Bank
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • COUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -40%
  • CM
    Canvasback Missions Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -44%
  • M
    MISC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Utahns Against Hunger

Our mission is to increase access to food across utah through advocacy, outreach, and education. utahns against hunger is utahs only state-wide anti-hunger non-profit organization working on public policy and advocacy for federal nutrition…

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2
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
3
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
4
Central Utah Food Sharing

Food bank - to assist those families who face the dilemma of paying rent or buying food.

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5
Bread of Refuge Inc

Bread of Refuge is a food pantry that distributes over 1600 banana boxes of food every month to families in need. We also feed 75-to-100 homeless people every week.

Human Services
6
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
7
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
8
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
9
Urban Hands

housing and feeding the homeless

Food & Nutrition
10
Community Sharing Program

Provide South Lane County community members with basic needs resources, life skills, and resources toward self-sufficiency.

Human Services
11
Azcend

AZCEND nourishes minds and bodies so that neighbors in need experience a brighter future.

Human Services
12
Food for His Children

Food for His children equips and emplowers people who are living in extreme poverty in rural Tanzania, Africa so that they can provide for their familiys basic needs including food, education, medical and a healthy home and become all Good…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheltercare; the most unlike its peers is Zions Children of Haiti. 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

17 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. 17 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST: $36,985 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRISTHUMANITARIAN AID FUND: $28,500 · OtherHUMANITARIAN AID FUNDRADY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $12,500 · OtherRADY CHILDRENS HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $9,125 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDS: $7,200 · OtherCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST LDSMISC: $6,000 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANK: $4,400 · Other+12 more: $15,000 · Other+12 moreCanvasback Missions Inc: $7,000 · Human ServicesCanvasbac…BURRITO BRIGADE: $2,500 · Human ServicesBURRITO B…Neighborhood House Association: $1,000 · Human ServicesNeighborh…Community Action Services and Food Bank: $1,000 · Human ServicesCommunity…WRAP THE WORLD WITH QUILTS: $500 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $7,000 · EducationZIONS CHILDREN OF HAITI: $2,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 · InternationalSHELTERCARE: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterOUR RESCUE: $2,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH COUNTY YOUTH CYCLING: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$119,710Human Services$12,000Education$7,000International$2,500Housing & Shelter$2,000Arts & Culture$2,000Youth Development$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanvasback Missions Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $4,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBURRITO BRIGADE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetZIONS CHILDREN OF HAITI: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERCARE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR RESCUE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER THE HOMELESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COALITION FKA FOOD & CARE COALITION OF UTAH VALLEY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Services and Food Bank: $1,000 over 2y, 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.

Sorenson Legacy Found…Dominion Energy Chari…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sorenson Legacy FoundationUT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Sunrise Foundation of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunrise Foundation of America. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Sheltercare: 18% of income from government
  • Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Sunrise Foundation of America?

Find your warmest path to Sunrise Foundation of America through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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