Nebraska · Private foundation
Sunshine Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $53k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $141k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Sunshine Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $28k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $41k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $85k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $79k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $60k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 11 | $22k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| People's City Mission | $97,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Christs Place | $66,049 | 8 | n/a |
| Christian Heritage Children's Home | $16,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Camp Sonshine | $1,650 | 7 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $1,486 | 6 | n/a |
| Omaha Youth for Christ | $1,350 | 2 | n/a |
| Clinic With a Heart Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($214k), not named here.
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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · The Hampton Family Foundation · Bettenhausen Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Sunshine Foundation
- How much does Sunshine Foundation give?
- Sunshine Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $52,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sunshine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Civil Rights (30%), Housing & Shelter (24%).
- Who are Sunshine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: People's City Mission ($97k), Christs Place ($66k), Christian Heritage Children's Home ($16k).
- Does Sunshine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunshine 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, The Hampton Family Foundation, Bettenhausen Family Foundation.
- Where is Sunshine Foundation based?
- Sunshine Foundation is based in NE.
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