California · Private foundation
Sunshine Polka-Dot 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.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 16 | $318k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $353k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $291k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $223k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $191k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $189k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $155k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $121k | 58% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Food Bank | $520,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Baykeeper | $353,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $160,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Agricultural Institute of Marin | $125,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Buen Dia Corporation | $86,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Marin School of the Arts Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Center for Domestic Peace | $41,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Marine Mammal Center | $41,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Womens Daytime Drop-In Center | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| 10000 Degrees | $29,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($264k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Dandelion Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation
- How much does Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation give?
- Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $318,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (42%), Environment (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Francisco Food Bank ($520k), Baykeeper ($353k), Redwood Empire Food Bank ($160k).
- Does Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunshine Polka-Dot 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 Polka-Dot Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Dandelion Foundation.
- Where is Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation based?
- Sunshine Polka-Dot Foundation is based in CA.
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