Alaska · Nonprofit
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.
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.
- United Way of the Tanana Valley Inclocal
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio match
- Scholar Fundportfolio 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: 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.
reserve
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 7 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of the Tanana Valley InclocalAK · funds 28 organizations near you
- Minnesota Child Care Resource and Referral Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Scholar Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Financeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Let's Grow Kids Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Children's Finance Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Child Care Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Valley Child Development Services Services Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agenciesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tanana Chiefs ConferencelocalAK · funds 30 organizations near you
- Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalAK · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · funds 25 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 Station Child Care Center
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 Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sunshine Station Child Care Center: 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 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.
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 7funders 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