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Sunrise123org

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$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMY OF SANTA MONICA$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
SANTA MONICA AY FOUNDATION$1,000
MIDNIGHT MISSION$1,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$1,000
CHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER$1,000
MEALS ON WHEELS WEST$1,000
MY FRIEND'S PLACE$1,000
LACBA COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE$500
HEAL THE BAY$500
02The need
02

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS WEST: $1k → 14%MIDNIGHT MISSION: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Meals On Wheels of San Francisco Inc

To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.

2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
Culver Palms Meals On Wheels

To provide meals on the west side of Los Angeles from Pico Blvd. to LAX, delivered by volunteers to people with illness, disability, or aging who cannot plan, shop, or provide for themselves.

4
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

5
Rescue Mission Alliance

The rescue mission alliance's primary purpose is to establish and operate rescue missions to reach the less fortunate with the gospel of jesus christ and to assist in the feeding, clothing, and lodging of those who are destitute or…

Human Services
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Sunnyvale Community Services

The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.

Human Services
8
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

9
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

11
Meals On Wheels of the Salinas Valley

No senior should go hungry. nutritious meals, which are delivered by caring volunteers, improve the health and well-being of people who are homebound, elderly, or disabled and help them remain in their homes and maintain their independence.

Food & Nutrition
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is The Midnight Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY OF SANTA MONICA — $1,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY OF SANTA MONICACHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER — $1,000 · OtherCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTERMY FRIEND'S PLACE — $1,000 · OtherMY FRIEND'S PLACECounsel for Justice — $500 · OtherCounsel for JusticeTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE MIDNIGHT MISSIONUNION RESCUE MISSION — $1,000 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE MISSIONMEALS ON WHEELS WEST — $1,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS WESTMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …SANTA MONICA BAY RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EnvironmentSANTA MONICA BAY …HEAL THE BAY — $500 · EnvironmentHEAL THE BAY
Other$3,500Human Services$3,000International$2,000Environment$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MONICA BAY RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIDNIGHT MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WEST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINATOWN SERVICE CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCounsel for Justice — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Sunrise123org 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sunrise123org?

    Find your warmest path to Sunrise123org 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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