Tennessee · Nonprofit
SPREADING SUNSHINE INC
SPREADING SUNSHINE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,306 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($32,032). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $338k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $61k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Spreading Sunshine Inc does
Mission
At Spreading Sunshine, our mission is to serve families whose children have critical or chronic illnesses by providing practical, emotional and spiritual support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sunshine Boxes - Provided personalized care packages and ongoing encouragement to children and families affected by childhood illness or special needs. In 2025, the organization distributed 420 Sunshine Boxes and served 123 individuals (29 families) through the Year of Sunshine program, which provides customized monthly mailings for one year.
$71,801 spent35% of program spendingInpatient Care - Partnered with pediatric hospitals and family housing programs in Memphis to support families during hospitalization and medical treatment. In 2025, the organization served over 4500 people through hospital partnerships, providing meals, hospital-based events, care packages, visits, and other practical assistance. These services helped relieve immediate burdens while ensuring families felt supported and less alone during a medical crisis.
$48,552 spent24% of program spendingFamily Care - Delivered individualized and community-based support to families affected by childhood illness or special needs. Services included one-on-one care, respite and family events, caregiver support, practical assistance, and grief/bereavement care. In 2025, 508 individuals participated in family events and received customized care
$81,938 spent41% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $202,291.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $55k to $127k (+133%).
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.
110% of SPREADING SUNSHINE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Diane Smith
Executive director
Board chair
Ari Morris
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $10k → $529.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 SPREADING SUNSHINE 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
SPREADING SUNSHINE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SPREADING SUNSHINE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 91% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPREADING SUNSHINE INC'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 $300 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SPREADING SUNSHINE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SPREADING SUNSHINE INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPREADING SUNSHINE INC: 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 SPREADING SUNSHINE INC?
- SPREADING SUNSHINE INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $61,306 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($32,032). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SPREADING SUNSHINE INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $61,306 in grants to SPREADING SUNSHINE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPREADING SUNSHINE INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $32,032 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPREADING SUNSHINE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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