How much did Sunstone Foundation grant in FY2024?

Education$599kHuman Services$347kYouth Development$95kArts & Culture$45kCommunity Improvement$32kPhilanthropy$32kHealth$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$27kReligion$18kOther$531k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

—

2023

in-kind seebooksreadingchildrensliteracyloveepiscopal

2024

in-kind seereadyreadreadingeducationlovebooks

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 102 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k80 grants · $231k
$10k–50k19 grants · $409k
$50k–250k3 grants · $306k

$3,789

Median grant

States reached

$495k

Total assets

Largest grants

THE EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP$173,759
BOOK FAIRIES INC$77,185
GOVERNORS EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION$55,000
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL PITTSBURG$35,000
TREEHOUSE$35,000
LAMBERT HOUSE$29,612
BAND TOGETHER$25,000
SHADOW PROJECT$25,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC$25,000
PROMISING PAGES$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA BUSINESS LEADERS FOR EDUCATION$25,000
READING QUEST$25,000
EVERYONES DREAM COME TRUE$25,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS$20,000
PEAK EDUCATION$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $322k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$960k · 45 repeat orgs$798k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +135% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$960k

$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%

+68%

Still filing today

80%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

BF
BOOK FAIRIES INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $131k · revenue +390%
GE
GOVERNORS EARLY LITERACY FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +191%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC
2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +47%

Funded once

K
KIDSMART
one grant, 2023 · $37k
RK
READY KIDS FOR SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +119% · 80% of their budget
IH
I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION-LOS ANGELES
one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Kids Need to Read

Providing books to children and organizations that serve children, especially disadvantaged children.

Education

Between the Pages

Between the pages empowers children to discover a life-long love of reading using books as tools to immerse economically disadvantaged and avid readers in an engaging recreation of their favorite books, fostering literacy, creative play,…

Youth Development

Read Early and Daily Read

Empower families to foster empathy, curiosity, and self-confidence in their young children through the joy of reading together every day. Provide new, quality, culturally relevant books to babies and young children.

Education

Reading to Kids

Reading to Kids is a grassroots organization dedicated to inspiring underserved children with a love of reading, thereby enriching their lives and opportunities for future success. Reading to Kids organizes monthly reading clubs at Los…

Education

Reach Out and Read Inc

Reach out and read gives young children a foundation for success.

Education

Project Read

Project Read changes lives through literacy and empowers individuals, strengthens families, builds communities, and creates new cycles of intergenerational literacy. Project Read provides individual tutoring and small group instruction to…

Education

Read to a Child Inc

Children's literacy & mentoring

Education

Beyond Kids Reading Inc

Beyond kids reading is an innovative, educational services 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. we are social entrepreneurs seeking to find more efficient and effective ways to help families and their children who struggle with reading. we…

Education

Page Turners Make Great Learners Inc

To expand children's knowledge and understanding of the world, themselves and their unique possibilities through a love of reading.

Human Services

The Children's Reading Foundation

Early childhood literacy

Education

Books From Birth

Books from Birth provides free books to impoverished children in Texas's Brazos Valley in order to boost early literacy skills and narrow the opportunity gap for underprivileged children before they enter school.

Education

Family Reading Partnership

Family reading partnership connects families with young children to the joy of books and read-aloud experiences to expand their horizons.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read and Feed and the most unlike its peers is Treehouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/126

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,439

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

102/104

Grantees still filing

90/104

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$599,312Other$606,808Human Services$347,413Youth Development$95,199Arts & Culture$45,432Community Improvement$32,328Philanthropy$31,536

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dollar General Literacy FoundationTN29.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Gap Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Sam S Bloom Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Peyback Foundation Inc · Reading Is Fundamental Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Sunstone Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: READY KIDS FOR SCHOOL.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 462882085 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on READY KIDS FOR SCHOOL, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Sunstone Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sunstone Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Sunstone Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sunstone Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Sunstone Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

104 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sunstone Foundation?

More from the funding graph