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SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC

SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,586,891 to it, the largest being The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation ($955,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$26M
Funders on record
58
Grants received
$4.6M
Net assets
$38M
38/58 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Sunrise Children's Services Inc does

Mission

Sunrise provides care and hope for hurting children and families through christ-centered ministries.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sunrise's newest specialized residential treatment program is new start adolescent addiction treatment center, which is an alcohol and other drug entity (aode). In fy 2024, new start, located in bronston, continued to have a lasting impact on young men. Sunrise has discovered two major issues for today's youth: mental health and substance abuse. With the creation of new start, its goal is to help combat these conditions that keep these youth from becoming the best version of themselves. Addressing the mental health concerns and drug and alcohol abuse in boys ages 12 to 17 is the first program of its kind in kentucky. Sunrise's other specialized treatment program psychiatric residential treatment facility (prtf) along with three therapeutic residential programs, serve male and female children based on individual treatment plans to address each child's needs. In fy 2024, sunrise provided 18,358 days of residential treatment services to 135 children, 9,250 days to 73 children in the prtf, and 2,385 days to 37 children in aode treatment.

    $11,499,537 spent$10,994,107 earned by the program
    54% of program spending
  2. In fy 2024, sunrise made great strides in constructing two homes on property in winchester that will be known as solid rock children's ranch. Solid rock will provide a new community of care for sibling groups in foster care. Keeping large sibling groups together in one home is a need that sunrise is addressing and meeting in its foster care program. Sunrise therapeutic foster care is made up of a tremendous staff of dedicated and caring professionals. They embody excellence and exude compassion partnering with foster families to provide around-the-clock assistance and comprehensive training. In fy2024, sunrise provided 61,990 foster care days to 393 children, and 3,749 days of care to 49 children in foster-to-adopt status, with 41 children having finalized adoptions in their forever homes.

    $6,891,730 spent$7,216,351 earned by the program
    33% of program spending
  3. Sunrise is also committed to doing what it can to help prevent families from entering into the foster care system. Sunrise's family services program is a statewide network of licensed mental health professionals who support families in outpatient therapy settings. Its goal is to preserve families by helping them work through and overcome challenging life circumstances. Sunrise goes where the needs are, providing individual, family, and group therapy; assessments; parenting classes; case management; and educational opportunities. In fy2024, sunrise helped 551 children and families by providing 8,521 outpatient clinical services.

    $1,341,013 spent$925,850 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  4. Sunrise has created an innovative and life-changing independent living program for young people who have aged out of the state's care, ages 18 through 21. As a participant, they are given the tools they need to build their own future as an independent adult. In addition, sunrise has been committed to providing young adults even more support than what has been offered through state-funded independent living services. That's why sunrise created ventureon. Since 2015, ventureon has been sunrise's pioneering, grant-funded program that surrounds young people with a care plan team and additional resources to better equip them for all that life can offer. In fy2024, sunrise provided 13,170 independent living days to 77 clients.

    $1,208,681 spent$1,389,899 earned by the program
    6% of program spending
  5. Two of sunrise's residential campuses now offer vocational rehabilitation which provides transitional services for youth with disabilities. These services include finding employment after high school, transition to jobs, and continuing education.

    $81,376 spent$99,027 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  6. Other programs

    $164,928 spent$787,554 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,187,265.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2018 Revenue 94 ($24M) Expenses 101 ($27M) Net assets 96 ($32M)2019 Revenue 100 ($26M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 92 ($31M)2020 Revenue 107 ($28M) Expenses 90 ($24M) Net assets 92 ($31M)2021 Revenue 90 ($24M) Expenses 76 ($20M) Net assets 109 ($36M)2022 Revenue 85 ($22M) Expenses 80 ($21M) Net assets 100 ($33M)2023 Revenue 96 ($25M) Expenses 91 ($24M) Net assets 107 ($35M)2024 Revenue 104 ($27M) Expenses 102 ($27M) Net assets 116 ($39M)2025 Revenue 99 ($26M) Expenses 103 ($27M) Net assets 116 ($38M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (103)Net assets (116)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $41M to $44M (+8%).

$40M
$38M
$38M
$38M
$41M
$38M
$41M
$44M
$43M
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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: 2020 0% · 2021 13% · 2022 3% · 2023 6%. 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 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$519k
’17
−$2.5M
’18
−$453k
’19
$4.0M
’20
$3.2M
’21
$759k
’22
$759k
’23
$24k
’24
−$1.5M
’25
0.8
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.

Chief executive

Larry Dale Suttles

President/CEO

Board chair

Benita Decker

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed232221232221252323
Joined·+3+19+6+5+3+7+3+4
No longer listed·420464354
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $201k → $417k.

13 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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

SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

34% 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 SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC.

21%
largest funder
42%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 20% · 2019 34% · 2020 31% · 2021 45% · 2022 45% · 2023 18% — 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

58% of SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

IL
WI
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
WV
MD
DE
AL
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $983k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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

Government funding SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.

Federal$39k
grants $39kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$39k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 16%Fundraising 3%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,586,891 to it, the largest being The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation ($955,000). 38 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,586,891 in grants to SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC, 38 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC?
The Harold Juanita David Dennis & Gary Koon Family Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $955,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNRISE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 58 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing