New York · Nonprofit
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,493 to it, the largest being Lift As We Climb Foundation Inc ($83,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $135k
- Net assets
- $297k
What Let's Share the Sun Foundation does
Mission
The foundation aspires to facilitate the use of solar energy in poor communities around the world where harnessing the power of the sun will enhance the quality of life of those communities. The foundation helps install solar power in some of the poorest parts of the world, including africa, asia and latin america; places that are rich in their access to the sun but lack fundamental resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Solar installation to bring electricity to hospitals, clinics, schools, and community gathering areas to the poorest parts of the world, including africa, asia and latin america.
$1,771,373 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,771,373.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2024 to 2025, from $83k to $518k (+522%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 20% · 2024 49% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $10k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 funders by total. 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
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 92% · 2021 99% · 2022 63% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.0M on record — $5.0M federal, $20k state.
- Department of Energy$5.0M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION?
- LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,493 to it, the largest being Lift As We Climb Foundation Inc ($83,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $135,493 in grants to LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION?
- Lift As We Climb Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $83,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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