Connecticut · Nonprofit
Sunshine Fund Incorporated
Sunshine Fund Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,650 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT & MARGARET PATRICELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $130k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $181k
What Sunshine Fund Incorporated does
Mission
The Sunshine Fund seeks to provide small moments of sunshine and acts of kindness through gifts to various individuals charities organizations etc. that contribute to or directly support families and children experiencing infant child loss or illness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We donate bereavement kits for families experiencing infant loss in a hospital setting. These kits include items such as: handmade quilts and blankets hats clothing memorial jewelry memorial boxes books stuffed animals and more. The kits are designed to help families create memories with their children in the little time they have together. We donated 26 kits in 2025.
$10,842 spent81% of program spendingWe donate handmade memory bears or other handmade keepsakes for families who have experienced a loss of a child 12 and under. These items are made using clothing items that are special to the family usually worn by the child. We donated approximately 30 items in 2025.
$2,486 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $13,328.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $517 → $5k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 Sunshine Fund Incorporated’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
Sunshine Fund Incorporated leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 97% · 2023 97% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Sunshine Fund Incorporated's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $150 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Sunshine Fund Incorporated runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Sunshine Fund Incorporated
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sunshine Fund Incorporated: 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 Sunshine Fund Incorporated?
- Sunshine Fund Incorporated (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,650 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT & MARGARET PATRICELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Sunshine Fund Incorporated have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $5,650 in grants to Sunshine Fund Incorporated, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Sunshine Fund Incorporated?
- THE ROBERT & MARGARET PATRICELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sunshine Fund Incorporated find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 3 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