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SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION

SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,430,586 to it, the largest being The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$9.2M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$32M
7/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What Sun Health Foundation does

Mission

Sun Health Foundation is a philanthropic partner of two medical centers, a research institute and provides support to the community at large through scholarships and free health programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. In partnership with generous donors, Sun Health Foundation provided $4,721,871 in philanthropic support to banner boswell medical center (a nationally recognized 410-bed acute care hospital), banner del e webb medical center (a 321-bed nationally recognized acute care hospital), banner sun health research institute with research focus on diseases of the aging, and other community health initiatives including nursing education, banner olive branch senior center, la loma care center, freedom plaza, grandview terrace care center, grandview terrace memory support suites, the center for health and wellbeing, care transitions program and community education.

    $3,675,498 spentof which $2,854,763 as grants$633,399 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,675,498.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($18M) Net assets 100 ($22M)2019 Revenue 208 ($11M) Expenses 47 ($8.7M) Net assets 149 ($33M)2020 Revenue 181 ($9.3M) Expenses 83 ($15M) Net assets 124 ($28M)2021 Revenue 149 ($7.7M) Expenses 48 ($8.8M) Net assets 142 ($32M)2022 Revenue 121 ($6.3M) Expenses 40 ($7.4M) Net assets 113 ($25M)2023 Revenue 137 ($7.1M) Expenses 45 ($8.3M) Net assets 111 ($25M)2024 Revenue 141 ($7.3M) Expenses 41 ($7.6M) Net assets 117 ($26M)2025 Revenue 178 ($9.2M) Expenses 31 ($5.6M) Net assets 140 ($32M)
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Revenue (178)Expenses (31)Net assets (140)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $50M to $42M (−17%).

$38M
$50M
$42M
$45M
$38M
$35M
$36M
$41M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

84% of SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13M
’17
$2.0M
’19
−$5.9M
’20
−$1.1M
’21
−$1.1M
’22
−$1.2M
’23
−$250k
’24
$3.6M
’25
4.3
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

Sharon Orlopp

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed2422232021232523
Joined··+4+6+8+4+5+4
No longer listed··397236
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $13k → $409k.

5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Sun Health Services). These are real filings, and they are not money SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SUN HEALTH 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

SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

35%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 78% · 2020 49% · 2021 88% · 2022 45% · 2023 61% — 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.

How long its funders stay

56% of SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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

55% of SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.

MI
MA
CA
CO
MO
AZ
DC
TX

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

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’23
Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin39% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SUN HEALTH 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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 23%Fundraising 12%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Sun Health Services · exempt
  • La Loma Senior Living Services · exempt
  • Sun Health Colonnade · exempt
  • Sun Health Grandview Terrace · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,430,586 to it, the largest being The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation ($500,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,430,586 in grants to SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION?
The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 16 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