How much does The Sisung Foundation give?

The Sisung Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $39,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Sisung Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Human Services (18%), Health (18%).

Who are The Sisung Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Munholland United Methodist Church Inc ($45k), Bethel Community Baptist Church Inc ($43k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($29k).

Does The Sisung Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Sisung 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 The Sisung Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Vincent Saia Foundation, Baptist Community Ministries.

Where is The Sisung Foundation based?

The Sisung Foundation is based in LA.

The Sisung Foundation

The Sisung Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Sisung 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.

$39k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$147kHuman Services$65kHealth$62kFood & Nutrition$28kEducation$17kRecreation & Sports$4kArts & Culture$3kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$779k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BETHEL COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH	$5,000
IN TOUCH MINISTRIES	$5,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATIO	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$5,000
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPI	$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN	$2,000
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE RESEARCH	$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$311k · 29 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$311k

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%

+40%

Still filing today

45%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesReligionInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +145%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +112%
NO
NEW ORLEANS MISSION INC
4× · 2017–2022 · $5k · revenue +208%

Funded once

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IN TOUCH MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +40%
CC
CONNECT CHURCH OF ALGIERS
one grant, 2023 · $6k
TREVOR PROJECT INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +64%

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.

04Its field

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.

Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion

Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International

Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health

Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International

Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

Special Olympics Inc

Special olympics strives to create a better world by fostering the acceptance and inclusion of people of all abilities through sports, health and education programs.

Recreation & Sports

Livin Foundation

Prevent suicide by creating quality connections through everyday conversations about mental health, by way of programs and partnerships.

Human Services

A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

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God's Littlest Angels Inc

God's littlest angels facilitates the development of healthy kids, empowered families, and stronger communities while sharing the hope and love of jesus christ.

International

Easter Seals Louisiana Inc

To change the way the world defines and views disabilities by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day.

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Sign Fracture Care International

Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 43 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/18

Grantees still filing

15/18

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$280,800Health$33,900Education$15,000Religion$11,000Human Services$5,000International$3,300Arts & Culture$3,000

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.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX16.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Vincent Saia Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Sisung Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sisung Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home