Maryland · Nonprofit
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($232,415). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 911 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 911 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared funders
- Jacques Pepin Foundation Theportfolio match
- Nielsen-Massey Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 (15% 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
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) — 20% 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; 65% 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
66% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 66 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared fundersMD · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Jacques Pepin Foundation Theportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nielsen-Massey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Farestartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Redfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oneten Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James C & Norma I Smith Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cla Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Leffin Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
Screen this organization
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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC?
- SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC (Maryland) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,132,567 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($232,415). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $2,132,567 in grants to SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC, 43 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.
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 66funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing