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Sunshine Station Child Care Center

Sunshine Station Child Care Center (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,010,987 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($887,105). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$403k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$442k
4/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%
01What it does

What Sunshine Station Child Care Center does

Mission

To provide affordable and safe child care services to the Upper Susitna area, while creating an environment that fosters positive self-image, mutual respect, and affection by offering support and exploration for children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Affordable child care services were provided to the community with approximately 25 children being served.

    $354,126 spentof which $134,580 as grants$267,490 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $354,126.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($69k) Net assets -198 ($-22878)2018 Revenue 278 ($177k) Expenses 140 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2019 Revenue 253 ($161k) Expenses 149 ($102k) Net assets 89 ($10k)2020 Revenue 133 ($85k) Expenses 134 ($92k) Net assets 91 ($11k)2021 Revenue 241 ($153k) Expenses 205 ($141k) Net assets -526 ($-60832)2022 Revenue 321 ($204k) Expenses 213 ($146k) Net assets -239 ($-27673)2023 Revenue 637 ($405k) Expenses 271 ($186k) Net assets 1161 ($134k)2024 Revenue 993 ($632k) Expenses 437 ($300k) Net assets 4074 ($471k)2025 Revenue 634 ($403k) Expenses 629 ($432k) Net assets 3824 ($442k)
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Revenue (634)Expenses (629)Net assets (3824)

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 $207k to $532k (+157%).

$2k
$15k
$14k
$62k
$20k
$48k
$207k
$532k
$497k
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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: 2022 13% · 2023 1% · 2024 2% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

−$5k
’17
$81k
’18
$59k
’19
−$8k
’20
$12k
’21
$58k
’22
$219k
’23
$331k
’24
−$29k
’25
6.6
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.

2022202320242025
Listed75712
Joined·+2+4+6
No longer listed·421
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $8k → $327k.

2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 Station Child Care Center’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 Station Child Care Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Station Child Care Center.

88%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 79% · 2023 85% — diversifying over time.

“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 Station Child Care Center's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK

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

’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Organizations like Sunshine Station Child Care Center

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 Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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 Station Child Care Center?
Sunshine Station Child Care Center (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,010,987 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($887,105). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sunshine Station Child Care Center have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,010,987 in grants to Sunshine Station Child Care Center, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sunshine Station Child Care Center?
VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $887,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sunshine Station Child Care Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 7 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