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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 FY2024still arriving
104
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MPhilanthropy$525kCrime & Legal$467kHealth$295kHuman Services$279kEnvironment$262kReligion$124kCivil Rights$101kOther$0
02FY2024 · 104 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k91 grants · $144k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $420k
$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL$10,000
BLUMENTHAL CENTER OF PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
FMU CENTER FOR THE CHILD$10,000
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$8,000
THE LEARNING COLLABORATIVE$8,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM: $100 → 20%HELPING HAND FOR RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $50 → 8%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $3k → 18%DRESSEMBER: $50 → 13%SHINNING HOPE FARMS: $8k → 12%CUMBEE CENTER TO ASSIST ABUSED PERSONS: $2k → 17%SHINING HOPE FARMS: $5k → 12%CUMBEE CENTER TO ASSIST ABUSED PERSONS: $2k → 17%SHINNING HOPE FARMS: $5k → 12%HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY: $25 → 18%RED CROSS: $1k → 14%EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 16%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $1k → 14%EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 16%EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $125 → 16%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $1k → 14%EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $100 → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $5k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $3k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $1k → 12%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $3k → 16%HEALTHY LEARNERS: $3k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $280 → 12%SC CENTER FOR FATHER'S & FAMILIES: $100 → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $1k → 12%EDISTO ISLAND YACHT CLUB: $100 → 12%WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $1k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 139 repeat orgs$568k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
216

Total granted

$2.9M
$319k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

40%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • BF
    BEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $117k · revenue +870%
  • CH
    CAROLINA HONDURAS HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $48k · revenue +7%
  • WA
    WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $33k
  • TE
    TER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $31k
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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
5
The One Campaign

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…

Unclassified
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
8
American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina Foundation Inc

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.

Civil Rights
9
Southern Center for Human Rights

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…

Civil Rights
10
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
11
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
12
Children's Trust of South Carolina

To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

152 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. 152 of the 412 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/152
Grantees still filing
98/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FMU - CENTER FOR THE CHILD: $344,600 · OtherFMU - CENTER FOR THE CHILDALLENDALE COUNTY SCHOOLS: $273,249 · OtherALLENDALE COUNTY SCHOOLSCLEMSON BEST IS STANDARD: $231,100 · OtherCLEMSON BEST IS STANDARDCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $179,200 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYALLENDALE COUNTY HOSPITAL: $165,126 · OtherALLENDALE COUNTY HOSPITALCENTER FOR THE CHILD: $145,538 · OtherCENTER FOR THE CHILDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $143,850 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYIndividual grant recipient: $138,688 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+139 more: $953,456 · Other+139 moreTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $406,406 · PhilanthropyTRI-COUNTY C…+1 more: $12,000 · PhilanthropySOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $334,867 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROL…WE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $42,200 · Civil RightsWE ARE FAMI…CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $21,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $15,650 · Civil RightsBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $117,117 · EducationQueens University of Charlotte: $64,600 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,000 · EducationThe Learning Collaborative: $23,500 · EducationHeathwood Hall Episcopal School: $10,800 · Education+14 more: $52,500 · EducationCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $39,000 · Crime & LegalTHE SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC: $18,150 · Crime & LegalCharleston Legal Access: $12,500 · Crime & LegalDOORS TO FREEDOM: $7,000 · Crime & LegalCHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE: $5,000 · Crime & LegalSouth Carolina Legal Services: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more: $7,350 · Crime & LegalCAROLINA HONDURAS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,025 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $16,050 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,800 · HealthBARNWELL COUNTY HELP LINE: $3,500 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthShining Hope Farms: $17,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHY LEARNERS: $17,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesCUMBEE CENTER TO ASSIST ABUSED PERSONS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesEPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,825 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER CHARLESTON: $2,280 · Human Services+4 more: $6,500 · Human Services
Other$2,574,807Philanthropy$418,406Civil Rights$413,717Education$307,517Crime & Legal$94,000Health$74,875Human Services$65,605

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $406,406 over 8y, 24% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $334,867 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $143,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEEMOK FAMILY FOUNDATION: $117,117 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $64,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINA HONDURAS HEALTH FOUNDATION: $48,025 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetWE ARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $42,200 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $39,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative: $23,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEDISTO ISLAND OPEN LAND TRUST: $20,601 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS OF SC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHARLESTON FORUM: $20,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA BAR FOUNDATION INC: $18,150 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetShining Hope Farms: $17,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS: $17,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $16,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $15,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCharleston Legal Access: $12,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetNEW MORNING: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLighthouse for Life: $12,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHeathwood Hall Episcopal School: $10,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICNA RELIEF USA PROGRAMS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOORS TO FREEDOM: $7,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFACT FORWARD: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Carolina Technical College System Foundation: $6,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SPEAKS FKA PEOPLE AGAINST RAPE: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $5,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOliver Gospel Mission: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARACTER RESTORATION INTITIATIVE: $5,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetARTS CENTER OF KERSHAW COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSouth Carolina Legal Services: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Charlotte: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEVERTHIRST INC: $5,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION PARTNERS FKA ACHIEVE COLUMBIA: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCUMBEE CENTER TO ASSIST ABUSED PERSONS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $3,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARNWELL COUNTY HELP LINE: $3,500 over 4y, 32% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO PROJECT INC: $3,036 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
  • Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Central Carolina Comm…Coastal Community Fou…Sisters of Charity Fo…The Leon Levine Found…Henry & Sylvia Yaschi…The Joanna FoundationPatrick Family Founda…United Way of the Mid…Dominion Energy Chari…Foundation for the Ca…Lipscomb Family Found…The Nord Family Found…
Central Carolina Community FoundationSC53.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Sunshine Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sunshine Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 412 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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