South Carolina · Private foundation
The Sunshine Foundation Inc
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.
- $724k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 104
- Grants FY2024
- 76
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $165,126
- Organizations funded a year
- 76 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations The Sunshine Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 100 | $667k | 49% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $429k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $602k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $393k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $360k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 88 | $340k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 100 | $331k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 96 | $320k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center | $334,867 | 8 | 9% |
| Allendale County Schools | $273,249 | 4 | n/a |
| Beemok Family Foundation | $117,117 | 2 | 1% |
| Queens University of Charlotte | $64,600 | 8 | 0% |
| Carolina Honduras Health Foundation | $48,025 | 8 | 2% |
| We Are Family Foundation | $42,200 | 8 | 1% |
| Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc | $39,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Clemson University Foundation | $39,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Learning Collaborative | $23,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Rights Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 168 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 236 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Sunshine Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 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: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · The Leon Levine Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Patrick Family Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Lipscomb Family Foundation · The Nord Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Sunshine Foundation Inc
- How much does The Sunshine Foundation Inc give?
- The Sunshine Foundation Inc reported 104 grants totaling $723,872 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sunshine Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (13%), Crime & Legal (12%).
- Who are The Sunshine Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center ($335k), Allendale County Schools ($273k), Beemok Family Foundation ($117k).
- Does The Sunshine Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Sunshine Foundation Inc 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 Sunshine Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central Carolina Community Foundation, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina.
- Where is The Sunshine Foundation Inc based?
- The Sunshine Foundation Inc is based in SC.
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