California · Nonprofit
Sunflower Wellness
Sunflower Wellness (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,060 to it, the largest being TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ($38,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2019
- $225k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $114k
- Net assets
- $114k
What Sunflower Wellness does
Mission
Empower people living w/ cancer to find strength and support thru exercise. Bridge gap betw med. treatment physical activity by working w/ oncologists to bring exercise directly to patients. Use the latest cancer fitness research to set stds in field. Promote healing sense of well-being while helping clients gain control thru recovery process
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
Fitness Club Operate gym class membership programs at multiple Bay Area gyms to provide ongoing exercise opportunities for people living with cancer. In 2018, we taught a total of 5 weekly classes. Exercise Counseling Operate Cancer-Exercise Counseling services at clinical locations from Marin County to the South Bay, including at Marin General Hospital, UCSFs Cancer Center, and the Stanford Cancer Center. We also offer free Exercise Counseling sessions at Charlotte Maxwell Clinic in Oakland, at the Shanti Project in San Francisco, and to patients at Kaiser in Marin and San Francisco, in addition to patients at other locations.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $25k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 Sunflower Wellness’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
Sunflower Wellness leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
78% 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 Sunflower Wellness.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 77% · 2021 100% · 2022 60% — 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
0% of Sunflower Wellness's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 FY2022, 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
77% of Sunflower Wellness's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Sunflower Wellness
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sunflower Wellness: 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 Wellness?
- Sunflower Wellness (California) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,060 to it, the largest being TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ($38,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sunflower Wellness have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $114,060 in grants to Sunflower Wellness, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sunflower Wellness?
- TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sunflower Wellness find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), and the filings of 9 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