· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $385k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $1,028,000 |
| Door County YMCA | $510,000 |
| National Wrestling Coaches Association Inc | $450,000 |
| FARE | $333,333 |
| Northwestern Memorial Foundation | $250,000 |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center | $150,000 |
| Delta Waterfowl Foundation | $100,000 |
| University of Chicago | $85,000 |
| Start Early (FKA Ounce of Prevention Fund) | $50,000 |
| National Alopecia Areata Foundation | $40,000 |
| USA Wrestling | $29,757 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Foundation | $20,000 |
| Gorton Community Center | $11,000 |
| Ames Education Foundation | $10,000 |
| Waterloo Community School District | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Sunshine Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
79 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Northwestern University5× · 2018–2023 · $5.4M · revenue +33%- LPLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH4× · 2018–2021 · $2.8M · revenue +19%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MGMassachusetts General Hospitalone grant, 2024 · $250k
- CCChicago Cred Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +41%
- NWNATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAMEone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +13%
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.
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.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 120 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.
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
- Who funds Chicago Cred Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake County ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds DES PLAINES WETLANDS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds AMES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gorton Community Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Help Our Military Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Erikson Institute ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunshine Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunshine Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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