Delaware · Private foundation
Sunstone 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.
- $946k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 102
- Grants FY2024
- 95
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 97%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,789
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $173,759
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 95
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 27
- Total assets, FY2024
- $474k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 97% of the organizations Sunstone Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 77 | $946k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $770k | 97% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $37k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storehouse for Teachers D/B/A the Education Partnership | $173,759 | 1 | 1% |
| Book Fairies Inc | $130,799 | 3 | 9% |
| Governor's Early Literacy Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Special Olympics North Carolina Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Free Library | $46,949 | 3 | 1% |
| Kid Smart | $46,686 | 2 | 3% |
| The Shadow Project | $42,365 | 2 | 4% |
| Reading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh | $37,099 | 1 | 2% |
| Treehouse | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Partners | $32,328 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 130 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Sunstone Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Gap Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Carolina Hurricanes Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Reading Is Fundamental Inc · John William Pope Foundation · The Grable Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Sunstone Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Sunstone Foundation
- How much does Sunstone Foundation give?
- Sunstone Foundation reported 102 grants totaling $945,904 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 95 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Sunstone Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Sunstone Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Storehouse for Teachers D/B/A the Education Partnership ($174k), Book Fairies Inc ($131k), Governor's Early Literacy Foundation ($100k).
- Does Sunstone Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 97% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sunstone 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 Sunstone Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Nora Roberts Foundation, Foundation for the Carolinas.
- Where is Sunstone Foundation based?
- Sunstone Foundation is based in DE.
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