Michigan · Nonprofit
WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION
WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,269 to it, the largest being EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION ($1,419). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $86k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $21k
What Western Sun Foundation does
Mission
To provide charitable support to small-mid sized nonprofits in the communities Goose fans travel through
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Through fundraising, education, awareness and visibility campaigns, Western Sun Foundation supports charitable community organizations benefiting music education, music therapy, the safety, health, and personal wellbeing of women and children, and climate action and environmental sustainability. For the fiscal year 2025, the Foundation gave grants to eight different organizations totaling $46,500
$46,790 spentof which $46,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $46,790.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION’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
WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
“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
WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 2 states in all.
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.
Against its field
WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,748 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION: 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 WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION?
- WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,269 to it, the largest being EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION ($1,419). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,269 in grants to WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION?
- EDWARD & WILHELMINA ACKERMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,419 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WESTERN SUN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2025–2025), 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