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SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC

SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,625 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($765,000). 3 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 FY2022
$49k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$808k
Net assets
$21k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Sunshine Heroes Foundation Inc does

Mission

Improve the health, inspire the spirits, and transform the lives of children around the world through education, healthcare, and recreational activities.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Health, education, and other charitable assistance to children and families in locations around the world where need exists. Includes provision of basic hygiene supplies, household items, and christmas gifts to children and families where educators and clergy indicate needs. Includes grants to separate organizations with aligned purposes.

    $4,656 spentof which $500 as grants
    28% of program spending
  2. Health, education, and other charitable assistance to children and families in locations around the world where need exists. Includes provision of basic hygiene supplies, household items, and christmas gifts to children and families where educators and clergy indicate needs. Includes grants to separate organizations with aligned purposes.

    $12,000 spentof which $12,000 as grants
    72% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,656.

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 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($68k)2018 Revenue 18 ($228k) Expenses 17 ($229k) Net assets 98 ($67k)2019 Revenue 4 ($53k) Expenses 7 ($97k) Net assets 34 ($23k)2020 Revenue 5 ($61k) Expenses 3 ($41k) Net assets 62 ($43k)2021 Revenue 0 ($2k) Expenses 1 ($19k) Net assets 37 ($25k)2022 Revenue 4 ($49k) Expenses 4 ($53k) Net assets 30 ($21k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (4)Expenses (4)Net assets (30)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 2019 to 2020, from $68k to $47k (−31%).

$84k
$82k
$68k
$47k
$29k
$21k
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$41k
’17
−$1k
’18
−$44k
’19
$20k
’20
−$18k
’21
−$4k
’22
4.1
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

Travis Hansen

CEO

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

201720182019202020212022
Listed777777
Joined·+0+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·00001
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $255k.

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 SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC’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 HEROES FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC.

95%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 81% · 2023 98% — 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

99% of SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC'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 $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Utah funders.

UT

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

’22
’23
Utah out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $799k 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

SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC's revenue fell 96% between 2017 and 2022.

Operating margin−9% · below the median
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−48% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,237 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Organizations like SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

31% of spending goes to programs.

Program 31%Management 68%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

59%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

UT

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC: 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 HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $807,625 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($765,000). 3 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 SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $807,625 in grants to SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $765,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUNSHINE HEROES FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), 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