California · Private foundation
Universal Sunlight Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $32M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Universal Sunlight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 7 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.1M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $2.2M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $1.9M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $1.4M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $599k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $440k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $206k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $4,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| East Valley Huntington Hospital | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dharma Realm Buddhist Association Inc | $925,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chinese Club of San Marino | $816,000 | 4 | 46% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $340,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Forshang World Foundation | $300,000 | 1 | 91% |
| Polytechnic School | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Namo Amitabha Society | $215,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Longchen Nyingtik Institute | $164,000 | 3 | 61% |
| The NCTU Foundation | $102,000 | 1 | 28% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $4,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| East Valley Huntington Hospital | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dharma Realm Buddhist Association Inc | $925,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Chinese Club of San Marino | $816,000 | 4 | 46% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $340,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Forshang World Foundation | $300,000 | 1 | 91% |
| Polytechnic School | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Namo Amitabha Society | $215,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Longchen Nyingtik Institute | $164,000 | 3 | 61% |
| The NCTU Foundation | $102,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Taiwanese American Scholarship Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 19% |
| United Charity Foundation | $52,500 | 4 | 56% |
| Asian Youth Center | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Coastal Studies Inc | $12,520 | 3 | 0% |
| Orange County Association for Buddhist Practices Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amitabha Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buddhas Light Intl Association | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arcadia Police Foundation | $3,380 | 2 | 4% |
| Isha Foundation Inc | $2,076 | 1 | 0% |
| Amida Society | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Universal Sunlight Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Universal Sunlight Foundation
- How much does Universal Sunlight Foundation give?
- Universal Sunlight Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $1,141,020 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Universal Sunlight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (49%), Religion (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Universal Sunlight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($4.0M), East Valley Huntington Hospital ($1.0M), Dharma Realm Buddhist Association Inc ($925k).
- Does Universal Sunlight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Universal Sunlight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Universal Sunlight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Asian Pacific Community Fund of Southern California, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Universal Sunlight Foundation based?
- Universal Sunlight Foundation is based in CA.
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