· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k91 grants · $144k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLENDALE COUNTY HOSPITAL | $165,126 |
| CLEMSON BEST IS STANDARD | $111,000 |
| BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION | $94,102 |
| CENTER FOR THE CHILD | $50,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,225 |
| USC MATTHEW AND TERRY ENDOWMENT SCHOLARSHIP | $33,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,868 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $15,200 |
| USC SCHOOL OF LAW | $12,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY | $10,200 |
| FMU CENTER FOR THE CHILD | $10,000 |
| BLUMENTHAL CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| THE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
139 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k 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
- BFBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $117k · revenue +870%
- CHCAROLINA HONDURAS HEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +7%
- WAWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $33k
- TETER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $31k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
At the aclu of south carolina foundation, we advocate, litigate, educate, and mobilize to defend and advance the civil rights and civil liberties of all south carolinians.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Williamsburg Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 412 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA HONDURAS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Learning Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds EDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLESTON FORUM ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shining Hope Farms ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY LEARNERS ↗
- Who funds NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: 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
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 Sunshine Foundation Inc 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
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.