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LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS
LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,578 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($148,457). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $371k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $697k
- Net assets
- $86k
What Lee & Bob Peterson Foundation Inc Dba Sunshine From Darkness does
Program
Inspiring hope dinner and journey to wellness symposium its mission to bring awareness of mental health and addiction disorders and erase the stigma of both.
$112,556 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $75k to $232k (+210%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Marlene M Hauck
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $4k → $140k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS’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
LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 58% · 2022 47% · 2023 29% — 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
60% of LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
84% of LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS'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 $114k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $583k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS?
- LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $696,578 to it, the largest being GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($148,457). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $696,578 in grants to LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS?
- GULF COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $148,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE & BOB PETERSON FOUNDATION INC DBA SUNSHINE FROM DARKNESS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 21 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing