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SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND

SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,644 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($39,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$439k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$436k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Sunnybeam School of Mercer Island does

Mission

Preschool education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preschool education of approximately 50 children, ages 3-5 years.

    $363,871 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $363,871.

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 ($288k) Expenses 100 ($241k) Net assets 100 ($603k)2018 Revenue 76 ($220k) Expenses 102 ($245k) Net assets 96 ($578k)2019 Revenue 120 ($345k) Expenses 112 ($270k) Net assets 108 ($653k)2020 Revenue 60 ($173k) Expenses 109 ($263k) Net assets 93 ($562k)2021 Revenue 75 ($216k) Expenses 130 ($313k) Net assets 77 ($465k)2022 Revenue 96 ($278k) Expenses 130 ($314k) Net assets 71 ($429k)2023 Revenue 117 ($339k) Expenses 142 ($343k) Net assets 70 ($424k)2024 Revenue 108 ($313k) Expenses 150 ($362k) Net assets 62 ($375k)2025 Revenue 152 ($439k) Expenses 157 ($378k) Net assets 72 ($436k)
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Revenue (152)Expenses (157)Net assets (72)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 2020 to 2021, from $602k to $504k (−16%).

$603k
$578k
$653k
$602k
$504k
$430k
$425k
$375k
$436k
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 18% · 2022 14% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

8% of SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’17
−$25k
’18
$75k
’19
−$90k
’20
−$98k
’21
−$36k
’22
−$5k
’23
−$49k
’24
$61k
’25
10
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.

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Listed141312131010121212
Joined·+8+5+6+9+0+9+3+0
No longer listed·965120730
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $132 → $15k.

3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND’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

SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND.

80%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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.

Where its funders are

99% of SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $275 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 1 state.

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $49k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND: 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 SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND?
SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,644 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($39,768). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $49,644 in grants to SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $39,768 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNNYBEAM SCHOOL OF MERCER ISLAND find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 4 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