New York · Nonprofit
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 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.
Against its field
LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 881 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 881 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- Troy Redevelopment Foundation Inclocal
- We Love Foundation Incportfolio match
- Manchester Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $14k → $10k.
2 of 7 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). 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.
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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 396 organizations that share them.
- Troy Redevelopment Foundation InclocalNY · funds 14 organizations near you
- We Love Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manchester Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Namaste Solar Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clean the World Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J Homer Butler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunpower Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackson Kemper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vallavbhai & Savitaben Patel Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Simon Bolivar Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alcon Cares Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jhaveri Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
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
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 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.
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 LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION?
- LET'S SHARE THE SUN FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 7 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 7 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.
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 7funders 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