Maryland · Nonprofit
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($232,415). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Sunflower Bakery Inc does
Mission
Sunflower bakery enables pathways to employment for young adults and teens with learning differences through pre-employment exposure and workforce development training in pastry arts, culinary arts, hospitality and related industries.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The organization began the job services program during the year.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Sunflower's pastry arts workforce development program includes 26 weeks of training in two phases. Phase one is 13 weeks of formal pastry instruction from a curriculum developed by sunflower focusing on techniques and methods, kitchen and food safety. Phase two is 13 weeks and students receive hands on experience in sunflower's commercial bakery production kitchen under direction of chef instructors. Students also receive extensive employee readiness preparation including interpersonal communication, self-advocacy, problem solving techniques, and time-management.
$1,200,066 spent$513,858 earned by the program54% of program spendingThe hospitality training has two phases taught by instructors with hospitality experience. Phase one consists of 13 weeks and is classroom based focusing on both hard and soft skills of customer service, front of house operations, safe food handling, and employment readiness. Phase two is 13 weeks and students shift from classroom to sunflower's retail outlets and support daily operations stocking inventory, engaging with customers, and running point of sale. Students also receive extensive employee readiness preparation including interpersonal communication, self-advocacy, problem solving techniques, and time-management.
$559,049 spent$354,730 earned by the program25% of program spendingSunflower's culinary arts training program follows the same 13 week phases and teaches cooking methods, knife skills, food preparation, working with meat, safe food handling and soft skills of employment readiness.phase one consists of 13 weeks where students learn basics of culinary preparations and phase two is 13 weeks where students apply their knowledge and receive hands on experience in the culinary commercial kitchen under the direction of chef instructors.
$349,046 spent$7,236 earned by the program16% of program spendingJob services provide employment support for program graduates, including resume development, cover letter creation, reviewing job descriptions and applying for positions, interviewing, employment-matching assistance, and job-site faded coaching for our graduates.
$133,137 spent$132,289 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,241,298.
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.
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 $1.3M to $2.1M (+70%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 3% · 2020 31% · 2021 18% · 2022 15% · 2023 9% · 2024 14% · 2025 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Jody Tick
Executive director
Board chair
Shai Fierst
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $168k → $293k.
10 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $1.1M from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 funders by total. 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
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 27% · 2019 19% · 2020 33% · 2021 16% · 2022 16% · 2023 12% — 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
51% of SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
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
65% of SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $425k 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.
Against its field
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- Department of Labor$75k
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 SUNFLOWER BAKERY 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNFLOWER BAKERY 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 SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC?
- SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,192,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($232,415). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $2,192,567 in grants to SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $232,415 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 66 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