Illinois · Nonprofit
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,316,353 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,012,950). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared funders
- McLaughlin Family Foundationportfolio match
- Counsellor Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 8%. 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $801k → $1.1M.
15 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 GOSPEL MINISTRIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 59%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 27% · 2019 23% · 2020 24% · 2021 24% · 2022 42% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
67% of SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES'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 $2.1M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 48 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Siragusa Family Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- McLaughlin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Counsellor Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bellevue Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oldham Little Church Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for International Research & Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patricia King Ministriesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ for All Nationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Generation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stafast Foundation Inc Aka Stay Fast Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beulah Land Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundationshared funderslocalIL · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 113 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chicago's Sunshine Enterprises Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES?
- SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,316,353 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,012,950). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $6,316,353 in grants to SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,012,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 48funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing