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Sunshine Nursery School

Sunshine Nursery School (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $138 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$673k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$138
Net assets
$1.0M
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sunshine Nursery School does

Mission

To Provide the necessary environment to students with an introduction to the formal classroom setting and to commence the nurturing of the socialization skills required to successfully transition to the public school setting.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization operates a nursery school for children, offering an effective environment as a precursor to the commencement of public school.

    $387,198 spent$621,390 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $387,198.

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 ($455k) Expenses 100 ($471k) Net assets 100 ($158k)2018 Revenue 100 ($456k) Expenses 99 ($464k) Net assets 95 ($151k)2019 Revenue 121 ($549k) Expenses 113 ($532k) Net assets 106 ($168k)2020 Revenue 97 ($442k) Expenses 99 ($465k) Net assets 92 ($145k)2021 Revenue 145 ($659k) Expenses 89 ($418k) Net assets 244 ($387k)2022 Revenue 145 ($660k) Expenses 97 ($459k) Net assets 371 ($588k)2023 Revenue 159 ($722k) Expenses 110 ($516k) Net assets 501 ($794k)2024 Revenue 145 ($660k) Expenses 115 ($542k) Net assets 576 ($913k)2025 Revenue 148 ($673k) Expenses 116 ($545k) Net assets 657 ($1.0M)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (116)Net assets (657)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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $971k (−21%).

$844k
$843k
$818k
$700k
$928k
$1.0M
$1.2M
$971k
$1.1M
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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: 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 18% · 2024 15% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

5% of Sunshine Nursery School’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$15k
’17
−$8k
’18
$17k
’19
−$23k
’20
$242k
’21
$202k
’22
$206k
’23
$118k
’24
$127k
’25
13
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.

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Listed99101010101198
Joined·+0+4+0+0+0+1+0+3
No longer listed·03000024
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100 → $23.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Nursery School’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 Nursery School leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% 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

28% 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 Nursery School.

72%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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 Nursery School's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Sunshine Nursery School runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve13.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Sunshine Nursery School

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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 29%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Sunshine Nursery School?
Sunshine Nursery School (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $138 to it, the largest being CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sunshine Nursery School have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $138 in grants to Sunshine Nursery School, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sunshine Nursery School?
CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sunshine Nursery School find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2 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