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The Sunshine Lady Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$119k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.1MCrime & Legal$761kCommunity Improvement$22kCivil Rights$20kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $239k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $926k
$50,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PORTLAND STATE PRISON EDUCATION$118,750
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$110,300
PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION$109,000
UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA$107,000
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$90,500
OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$75,500
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$60,000
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY$55,320
HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION$50,000
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$50,000
LIFE UNIVERSITY$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION$46,200
FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT$45,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$43,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $41k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $40k → 13%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: $50k → 9%HERKIMER COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $25k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $34k → 16%DOROTHY INGRAM: $17k → 22%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $91k → 15%OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $76k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $43k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 21%WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 7%MOREHEAD CITY GRANTS: $6.3M → 12%RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF: $34k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $110k → 8%LIFE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA: $107k → 13%MOREHEAD CITY GRANTS: $868k → 12%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 15%FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT: $45k → 9%PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION: $109k → 14%TWIN FORKS RISING COMMUNITY DEV COR: $22k → 22%FRIENDS OF GUEST HOUSE: $3k → 9%THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION: $46k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON: $40k → 13%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION: $50k → 9%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $75k → 16%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $43k → 11%ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $50k → 21%MOREHEAD CITY GRANTS: $3.7M → 12%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $40k → 8%LIFE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 8%PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION: $40k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 15%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $500 → 8%PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION: $3k → 14%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500 → 10%PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION: $3k → 14%PRISON NEIGHBORHOOD ARTSEDUCATION: $500 → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
OR
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
AR
NC
LA
MS
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 13 repeat orgs$504k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$12M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+19%

Still filing today

62%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCrime & 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

  • OA
    OFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $151k · revenue +34%
  • MD
    MIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $141k · revenue +22%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $120k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue +19%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF
    one grant, 2023 · $34k
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
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
4
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
5
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
6
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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10
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
11
William Jessup University

In partnership with the church, the purpose of william jessup university is to educate transformational leaders for the glory of god.

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12
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis University; the most unlike its peers is The Thurman Perry Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $10,868,713 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+14 more: $1,136,100 · Other+14 moreMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $141,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $100,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $86,000 · EducationUniversity of Scranton: $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $46,200 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $40,695 · Education+1 more: $20,240 · EducationFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $45,000 · Crime & LegalTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $3,327 · Health
Other$12,004,813Education$734,135Crime & Legal$45,000Civil Rights$20,000Health$3,327

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOFFENDER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $150,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetMIAMI DADE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $141,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University Fresno Alumni Association Incorporated: $103,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE UNIVERSITY INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $86,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Scranton: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC: $46,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $45,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $40,695 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THURMAN PERRY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUEST HOUSE INC: $3,327 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lady Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sunshine Lady Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report 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.
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How do I get to The Sunshine Lady Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Sunshine Lady Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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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