Kansas · Nonprofit
SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,575 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($473,378). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Sunlight Children's Services Inc does
Mission
To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sunlight child advocacy center provides a safe environment for alleged victims of child abuse to tell their stories. The cac provided services to 255 children and 123 non-offending caregivers in 2023.
$572,895 spent40% of program spendingSunlight children's home provides temporary emergency shelter for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse and neglect. It provided comfort and care to 661 children from 76 counties in kansas. There were 75 volunteers who donated about 300 hours of service to sunlight children's home in 2023.
$866,036 spent60% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,931.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.0M to $2.4M (+20%).
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 66% · 2018 58% · 2019 49% · 2020 69% · 2021 62% · 2022 60% · 2023 62% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Bryn Murphy
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $137k → $96k.
6 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 23 of 24 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
SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 55% · 2019 39% · 2020 52% · 2021 55% · 2022 32% · 2023 50% — 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
54% of SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
97% of SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k 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.
Organizations like SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES 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 SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
- SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Kansas) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,228,575 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($473,378). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,228,575 in grants to SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC is the largest funder on record, with $473,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24 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