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CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC

CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,184,108 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,869,508). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$4.2M
Revenue FY2024
25
Funders on record
$5.2M
Grants received
$9.2M
Net assets
12/25 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 50%

Against its field

CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,197 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin24% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)27% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,197 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($817k) Net assets 100 ($337k)2019 Revenue 108 ($1.1M) Expenses 118 ($962k) Net assets 140 ($470k)2020 Revenue 180 ($1.8M) Expenses 172 ($1.4M) Net assets 266 ($895k)2021 Revenue 174 ($1.8M) Expenses 217 ($1.8M) Net assets 263 ($885k)2022 Revenue 915 ($9.3M) Expenses 253 ($2.1M) Net assets 2409 ($8.1M)2023 Revenue 242 ($2.5M) Expenses 289 ($2.4M) Net assets 2436 ($8.2M)2024 Revenue 418 ($4.2M) Expenses 397 ($3.2M) Net assets 2734 ($9.2M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (418)Expenses (397)Net assets (2734)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 1% · 2023 21% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

95% of CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,406 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$198k
18
$133k
19
$425k
20
$10k
21
$7.2M
22
$93k
23
$1.0M
24
4.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $429k → $945k.

10 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)55% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC.

36%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 64% · 2021 57% · 2022 55% · 2023 26%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

33% of CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

55% of CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.3M that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 6 states.

IL
NY
MA
DE
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 11%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

74%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC?
CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,184,108 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,869,508). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC have?
IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $5,184,108 in grants to CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,869,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHICAGO'S SUNSHINE ENTERPRISES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 25funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing