· Private foundation
The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALLA WALLA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN ACTION COUNCIL BMAC | $15,000 |
| PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS | $10,000 |
| WALLA WALLA PUBLIC LIBRARY BMCF | $10,000 |
| HOPE STREET | $10,000 |
| SKYLINE ADVENTURES - BLUEWOOD PROGRAM | $9,000 |
| YMCA | $8,500 |
| THE HEALTH CENTER | $7,500 |
| YWCA | $7,000 |
| CARNEGIE PICTURE LAB | $5,000 |
| LILLIE RICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN THERAPEUTIC RIDING - BMTR | $5,000 |
| CLUB-PLUS DELTA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BMBLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +29%
- CPCarnegie Picture Lab6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +100% · 32% of their budget
- HSHOPE STREET6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WALLA WALLAone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WWWALLA WALLA CATHOLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLAone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
WCSC connects and empowers older adults to live happy, healthy, and engaged lives.
to provide compassionate care to patients in the final stages of life and support for their loved ones and caregivers.
The walla walla valley chamber of commerce is a member-focused organization and community partner that fosters a sustainable, healthy and vibrant economic environment through business promotion, advocacy, education and services.
Our mission is to provide safe/secure low-barrier shelter and food to any adult in need in the Walla Walla region. Our hope is to build upon this foundation to stabilize people's lives while helping them to become self-sufficient. We do…
We partner with our community to make good health possible for all. wallace serves individuals and families who face barriers to care throughout the east multnomah county in the portland metropolitan area.
Strength in every struggle and hope in every heart.
The mission of the walla walla basin watershed council is to protect the resources of the walla walla watershed, deal with issues in advance of resource degredation and enhance the overall health of the watershed, while also protecting as…
Trade association dedicated to providing educational opportunities, legal and regulatory advice, quality compliance assistance, lobbying and discounted group member benefits for long-term care facilities.
A private not-for-profit senior center organization that promotes the general welfare of older adults in the Wenatchee Valley through programs, services, activities, and facilities that provide a safe and healthful environment where…
The wwcc foundation's mission is support student access and educational excellence at walla walla community college.
Assist low-income individuals and families to become self-sufficient and change lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walla Walla Valley Disability Network and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Picture Lab ↗
- Who funds HOPE STREET ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA VALLEY DISABILITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Tri-State Steelheaders ↗
- Who funds Lillie Rice Center ↗
- Who funds Tri-Cities Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CHILDREN OF WALLA WALLA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BLUE MOUNTAIN HEALTH COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds Helpline ↗
- Who funds Walla Walla Symphony Society Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Blue Mountain Community Foundation · Sherwood Trust · George T Welch Testamentary Trust · Clara and Art Bald Trust · Mary Garner Esary Trust · Estate of Joseph L Stubblefield · United Way of the Blue Mountains · Yancey P Winans Testamentary Trust · Bonnie & Clifford Braden Foundation · Wells Charitable Trust · Milton-Freewater Area Foundation Baker Boyer Trust 5-015736 · Artsfund
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 organization The Sunny Day Charitable 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.
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 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.
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