Illinois · Private foundation
Sunshine Charitable 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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,028,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $115M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Sunshine Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 62 | $3.3M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $7.3M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $6.9M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $5.3M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $4.5M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $13M | 35% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $5,375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $2,750,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Medical Center | $1,800,000 | 8 | 0% |
| National Wrestling Coaches Association | $1,375,000 | 7 | 14% |
| Door County YMCA INC | $1,031,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $550,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Northwestern Memorial Healthcare | $416,000 | 6 | n/a |
| National Alopecia Areata Foundation | $310,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Chicago Cred Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake County | $226,500 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($29M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sunshine Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · The Gorter Family Foundation · The Grainger Foundation Inc · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Door County Community Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Lutsey Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Sunshine Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sunshine Charitable Foundation give?
- Sunshine Charitable Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $3,271,290 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sunshine Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (16%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are Sunshine Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northwestern University ($5.4M), Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($2.8M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.8M).
- Does Sunshine Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunshine Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sunshine Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Foundation, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Sunshine Charitable Foundation based?
- Sunshine Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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