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RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION

RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$16k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$767k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Ray of Sunshine Foundation does

Mission

To provide financial support to the sunshine school and development center of benton county.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Support for the operations of the sunshine school and development center. The center provides programs to develop and enrich the lives of individuals and families with developmental challenges through therapy, education and support.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($49k) Expenses 100 ($68k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 127 ($61k) Expenses 800 ($542k) Net assets 71 ($1.2M)2019 Revenue 96 ($47k) Expenses 367 ($249k) Net assets 56 ($942k)2020 Revenue 69 ($33k) Expenses 442 ($300k) Net assets 41 ($693k)2021 Revenue 34 ($16k) Expenses 11 ($8k) Net assets 46 ($767k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (34)Expenses (11)Net assets (46)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $1.7M to $1.2M (−29%).

$1.7M
$1.2M
$942k
$693k
$767k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$481k
’18
−$202k
’19
−$266k
’20
$9k
’21
69
months of
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.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.

20172018201920202021
Listed56888
Joined·+1+2+0+1
No longer listed·0001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $1k.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 RAY OF SUNSHINE 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

RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

67% 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 RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION.

67%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

67% of RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION'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 $4k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Arkansas funders.

AR

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

’21
’23
Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like RAY OF SUNSHINE 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 Arkansas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

0% of spending goes to programs.

Program 0%Management 100%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sunshine School and Development Center · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RAY OF SUNSHINE 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 RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION?
RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($8,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,000 in grants to RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAY OF SUNSHINE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 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