Illinois · Nonprofit
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,395,853 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 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Sunshine Gospel Ministries does
Mission
Sunshine Gospel Ministries exists to seek renewal in the city through ministries of discipleship, mercy and justice. The organization accomplishes its mission through building relationships, teaching, mentoring, developing life skills, care and advocacy in the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth outreach: youth outreach programs serve elementary, middle, and high school ages. Each program provides students with a structured after-school environment that promotes positive values and fosters a commitment to learning. Youth participate in various academic, creative, and recreational activities, receive tutoring, and learn how to form a strong, positive identity.
$637,387 spent50% of program spendingBridge builders: bridge builders helps to connect people from different backgrounds to promote a shared understanding of the challenges facing inner-city communities. Those from an outside context typically hear and see mostly negative portrayals of the inner city, often contributing to unhelpful labeling and misguided interactions. We believe the giftedness of the community is more clearly seen through fostering healthy, meaningful experiences that combine learning with active engagement.
$41,066 spent$18,094 earned by the program3% of program spendingFlourishing community initiative: the flourishing community initiative is designed to reduce the level of violence in the chicago police department third district by working hands-on with neighbors, law enforcement, youth, and families of victims of violence. The work will make extensive use of data to track conditions, activities, and outcomes. This date will be used to measure impact as well as to communicate with all partners, advisors, city and community residents.
$240,490 spent19% of program spendingFamilyhood equips parents, teachers, youth workers, and other adults to aid children in becoming healthy, caring, and responsible citizens. Families focus on positive communication while working with others to build support networks for young people, helping them build key developmental assets, and fostering growth.
$107,255 spent8% of program spendingThe housing program exists to bring about the stabilization and revitalization of the woodlawn community.
$231,838 spent18% of program spendingSunshine Gospel Ministries is constructing a 77,000-square-foot community center to continue 120 years of service on chicago's south side. The organization's belief in place-based strategies directly feeds into the goals and visions of the community center, which is to encourage thriving neighborhoods by bringing people together to build cultural and economic vitality.
$16,994 spent1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,275,030.
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 $4.1M to $3.6M (−13%).
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
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
Kimberly Salley
Trustee, exec director
Board chair
Richard Wilson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
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 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 50 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 31% of grant income and the top three 58%; 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; 52% 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
68% 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. $4.3M 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.
Organizations like SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES
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 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES?
- SUNSHINE GOSPEL MINISTRIES (Illinois) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,395,853 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 68% 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 50 organizations giving $6,395,853 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.
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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 50 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