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SHINE GLOBAL INC

SHINE GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,719 to it, the largest being CUSHING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($720,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$695k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$1.6M
Net assets
$356k
12/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 64%
01What it does

What Shine Global Inc does

Mission

The organization is dedicated to improving children's lives by promoting action.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Creating, developing, supporting, funding, producing and distributing,to the public, films & media concerning the plight of needy individuals, principally children and their families, the adverse impact on their physical, emotional and social well being caused by man made conditions, disasters and events, such as poverty, famine,disease, severe weather and armed conflict. The goal is to inspire theinternational community to devote greater resources to mitigating their plight and improve their living conditions.

    $681,717 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $681,717.

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 ($874k) Expenses 100 ($677k) Net assets 100 ($320k)2018 Revenue 71 ($618k) Expenses 81 ($549k) Net assets 92 ($296k)2019 Revenue 39 ($343k) Expenses 39 ($265k) Net assets 117 ($373k)2020 Revenue 78 ($685k) Expenses 91 ($619k) Net assets 137 ($439k)2021 Revenue 89 ($780k) Expenses 115 ($781k) Net assets 137 ($438k)2022 Revenue 70 ($615k) Expenses 104 ($707k) Net assets 108 ($346k)2023 Revenue 91 ($795k) Expenses 130 ($878k) Net assets 82 ($263k)2024 Revenue 146 ($1.3M) Expenses 152 ($1.0M) Net assets 160 ($512k)2025 Revenue 79 ($695k) Expenses 126 ($851k) Net assets 111 ($356k)
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Revenue (79)Expenses (126)Net assets (111)

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 $561k to $382k (−32%).

$455k
$335k
$408k
$503k
$480k
$467k
$416k
$561k
$382k
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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
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 7% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$198k
’17
$69k
’18
$78k
’19
$66k
’20
−$511
’21
−$92k
’22
−$83k
’23
$249k
’24
−$156k
’25
5.2
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.

Board chair

Alan Hecht

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed161516151514111012
Joined·+0+1+2+0+2+3+2+2
No longer listed·10303630
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $36k → $512k.

9 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SHINE GLOBAL 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

SHINE GLOBAL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

50% 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 SHINE GLOBAL INC.

44%
largest funder
64%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 94% · 2019 37% · 2020 55% · 2021 60% · 2022 60% · 2023 78% — 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.

How long its funders stay

55% of SHINE GLOBAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

SHINE GLOBAL INC draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
CA
NC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $782k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding SHINE GLOBAL INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$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.

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In New York

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

NY
NJ
CA

Part of a family of 8 related entities

  • Inocente Film LLC · disregarded
  • Daughters of the Hills LLC · disregarded
  • War Dance Ventures LLC · disregarded
  • Virtually Free LLC · disregarded
  • Election Effect LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHINE GLOBAL INC?
SHINE GLOBAL INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,620,719 to it, the largest being CUSHING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($720,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHINE GLOBAL INC have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,620,719 in grants to SHINE GLOBAL INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHINE GLOBAL INC?
CUSHING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $720,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHINE GLOBAL INC 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 17 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