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THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS

THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,135 to it, the largest being THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$40M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$691M
0/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands does

Programs

  1. Public programs & education(see statement 15)

    $9,086,676 spent

  2. Retreats & other convenings(see statement 15)

    $8,685,239 spent

  3. Public programs on the open land(see statement 15)

    $24,761 spent

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.

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 ($18M) Expenses 100 ($19M) Net assets 100 ($559M)2018 Revenue 142 ($26M) Expenses 113 ($21M) Net assets 103 ($578M)2019 Revenue 140 ($26M) Expenses 119 ($22M) Net assets 104 ($580M)2020 Revenue 108 ($20M) Expenses 113 ($21M) Net assets 101 ($565M)2021 Revenue 236 ($43M) Expenses 118 ($22M) Net assets 118 ($662M)2022 Revenue 625 ($114M) Expenses 135 ($25M) Net assets 105 ($585M)2023 Revenue 124 ($23M) Expenses 132 ($25M) Net assets 109 ($610M)2024 Revenue 128 ($23M) Expenses 139 ($26M) Net assets 116 ($651M)2025 Revenue 222 ($40M) Expenses 143 ($26M) Net assets 124 ($691M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (222)Expenses (143)Net assets (124)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 2020 to 2021, from $567M to $667M (+18%).

$564M
$582M
$583M
$567M
$667M
$587M
$613M
$655M
$696M
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed131313141315151314
Joined·+0+1+2+0+2+0+0+2
No longer listed·01110021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $80k → $119k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
'23
total
The Seminar Network Incunclassified
$125k
Georgetown Universityunclassified
$119k
funders
2
2
1
1

From the IRS filings of THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS’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

THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS.

31%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.

WA
MI
CA
VA
DC

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

’18
’20
’21
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 132 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve33.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 132 public benefit nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS

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In California

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Nationally

The Anthony Trust Association70%Adirondack Land Trust Inc67%Anchorage Park Foundation67%The Annenberg Foundation67%Anza-Borrego Foundation65%Woldenberg Foundation65%Alice Ferguson Foundation Inc65%Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative Inc65%
05Profile & governance

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS?
THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,135 to it, the largest being THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ($125,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $400,135 in grants to THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS.
Who is the largest funder of THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS?
THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $125,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION TRUST AT SUNNYLANDS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 6 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