· Private foundation
Sunshine Comes First Ltd
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS | $35,000 |
| THE SAFINA CENTER - STONY BROOK UNI | $24,000 |
| MADAGASCAR HEALTH ENVIRONMENTAL RES | $18,000 |
| Hudsonia | $5,500 |
| DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 52% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
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 41% of Sunshine Comes First Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 43%.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $198k · revenue +139%
- CICULTURECONNECT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +94%
- O4OPUS 40 INC3× · 2021–2023 · $21k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- CVCENTRE VALBIO MADAGASCARone grant, 2018 · $75k
- CVCENTRE VALBIO BUILDING FNDone grant, 2017 · $61k
- AFACUMEN FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +56%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wildlife Madagascar is dedicated to the preservation and protection of Madagascars unique biodiversity through a multifaceted strategy and extensive collaborative efforts.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The Fossey Fund is dedicated to the conservation and study of gorillas in Africa through a successful, people-centered approach: 1) Providing daily protection to gorillas, 2) Scientific research providing critical data on gorillas and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Awf's mission is to ensure wildlife and wild lands thrive in modern africa. we work to equip african governments, institutions, business, and communities with the tools, insights, and support they need to define, own, and realize a…
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Conservation of natural resources
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
To understand the biotic processes that underlie and maintain the diversity of life worldwide, especially in the tropics, and to use this knowledge to address global environmental and sustainability challenges.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 MAMA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MADAGASCAR HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ZARA AINA INC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURECONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds RHINEBECK SCIENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPUS 40 INC ↗
- Who funds WISE TROPICS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS FOUNDATION OF ASTOR ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunshine Comes First Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunshine Comes First Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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