Washington · Private foundation
The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $186k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 31 | $186k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $170k | 34% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $159k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $178k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $190k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountain Humane Society | $174,500 | 6 | 5% |
| Cardinals Nest | $62,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Carnegie Picture Lab | $50,000 | 6 | 32% |
| Hope Street | $39,500 | 6 | 7% |
| United Way of the Blue Mountains | $35,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Blue Mountain Therapeutic Riding | $32,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Christian Aid Center | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Walla Walla Valley Disability Network | $20,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Fort Walla Walla Museum Walla Walla Valley Historical Society | $15,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Tri-State Steelheaders | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($526k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation give?
- The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $186,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (19%), Human Services (16%), Animals (16%).
- Who are The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Blue Mountain Humane Society ($175k), Cardinals Nest ($62k), Carnegie Picture Lab ($50k).
- Does The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Mountain Community Foundation, Sherwood Trust, George T Welch Testamentary Trust.
- Where is The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation based?
- The Sunny Day Charitable Foundation is based in WA.
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