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Sunset Cove Foundation at a glance

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Sunset Cove Foundation

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.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$305kHealth$100kCommunity Improvement$40kPhilanthropy$20kPublic Benefit$20kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$669k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WHEELER SCHOOL$50,000
PROJECT HEAL$10,000
DREAMWEAVER HERITAGE COLLECTIVE INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%Open Collective Foundation: $20k → 14%DREAMWEAVER HERITAGE COLLECTIVE INC: $10k → 9%NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $40k → 17%Project HEAL: $5k → 20%HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%PROJECT HEAL: $10k → 11%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $25k → 17%RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%CITY YEAR PROVIDENCE: $10k → 14%THE WHEELER SCHOOL: $50k → 14%CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $10k → 14%The Wheeler School: $25k → 14%CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $10k → 14%The Wheeler School: $10k → 14%CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $10k → 14%THE WHEELER SCHOOL: $10k → 14%CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $10k → 14%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$400k · 4 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
4

Total granted

$400k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+0%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2024 · $200k · revenue +28%
  • TW
    THE WHEELER SCHOOL
    4× · 2021–2025 · $95k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    THE CAPITAL GOOD FUND
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +382%

Funded once

  • OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • HC
    HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • CITY YEAR INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +15%
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
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
2
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
3
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
4
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
7
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
8
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
9
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
The Clear Fund

Givewell is dedicated to finding and funding outstanding giving opportunities in global health and development, sharing the full details of our analysis with everyone for free.

Philanthropy
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rhode Island Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Dreamweaver Heritage Collective Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $95,000 · EducationTHE WHEELER SCHOOLNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 · OtherNATIONAL EATING DISORDER…HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherHASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…PROJECT HEAL: $10,000 · OtherPROJECT HEALCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CAPIT…OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLE…THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE…The Dreamweaver Heritage Collective Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $5,000 · Health
Education$295,000Other$105,000Community Improvement$40,000Philanthropy$40,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$5,000

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 budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHEELER SCHOOL: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $65,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dreamweaver Heritage Collective Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sunset Cove Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunset Cove Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report 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, 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.

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 11 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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