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12 funders with a record of paying for “sunday”
Where the money went The Chicago Community Trust → The Joffrey Ballet: $2.5M across 1 grant, latest 2022 Kinder Foundation → Discovery Green Conservancy: $1.5M across 4 grants, latest 2025 Lilly Endowment Inc → National Sunday Schl & Holiness Yth: $790K across 1 grant, latest 2025 Delaware Community Foundation Inc → Delaware Art Museum: $268K across 1 grant, latest 2021 Laffey-Mchugh Foundation → Sunday Breakfast Mission: $170K across 4 grants, latest 2024 Ellice & Rosa Mcdonald Foundation → Sunday Breakfast Mission: $165K across 4 grants, latest 2024 California Community Foundation → Big Sunday: $85K across 4 grants, latest 2024 The Community Foundation of Middle → Kick the Stereotypes: $60K across 1 grant, latest 2024 Victory Christian Ministries → Metro World Child: $53K across 5 grants, latest 2025 Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc → Surgery On Sunday Inc: $48K across 4 grants, latest 2024 Elbert W Rogers Foundation → Warehouse Theatre: $8K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Enterprise Holdings Foundation → Sunday Breakfast Mission Inc: $6K across 2 grants, latest 2022 Delaware Community Foundation Inc → Sunday Breakfast Mission: $262K across 3 grants, latest 2023 The Chicago Community Trust → Chicago Sunday Evening Club: $214K across 4 grants, latest 2023 Lilly Endowment Inc → Indiana Student Financial Aid Assoc: $100K across 2 grants, latest 2024 The Community Foundation of Middle → Friends of Warner Parks: $16K across 3 grants, latest 2024 Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc → Monteagle Sunday School Assembly: $10K across 1 grant, latest 2021 Elbert W Rogers Foundation → Temple of Israel: $7K across 4 grants, latest 2025 Enterprise Holdings Foundation → Sunday Friends Foundation: $6K across 2 grants, latest 2023 Lilly Endowment Inc → Indiana Student Financial Aid Assn: $100K across 2 grants, latest 2025 Delaware Community Foundation Inc → Sunday Breakfast Mission Inc: $73K across 1 grant, latest 2024 The Community Foundation of Middle → Monteagle Sunday School Assembly: $5K across 1 grant, latest 2024 Enterprise Holdings Foundation → Sunday Breakfast: $4K across 2 grants, latest 2021 The Chicago Community Trust: $2.7M on this topic. Open the funder. The Chicago Community Trust $2.7M Kinder Foundation: $1.5M on this topic. Open the funder. Kinder Foundation $1.5M Lilly Endowment Inc: $990K on this topic. Open the funder. Lilly Endowment Inc $990K Delaware Community Foundation Inc: $602K on this topic. Open the funder. Delaware Community Foundation… $602K Laffey-Mchugh Foundation: $170K on this topic. Open the funder. Laffey-Mchugh Foundation $170K Ellice & Rosa Mcdonald Foundation: $165K on this topic. Open the funder. Ellice & Rosa Mcdonald Founda… $165K California Community Foundation: $85K on this topic. Open the funder. California Community Foundati… $85K The Community Foundation of Middle: $81K on this topic. Open the funder. The Community Foundation of M… $81K Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc: $58K on this topic. Open the funder. Blue Grass Community Foundati… $58K Victory Christian Ministries: $53K on this topic. Open the funder. Victory Christian Ministries $53K Elbert W Rogers Foundation: $15K on this topic. Open the funder. Elbert W Rogers Foundation $15K Enterprise Holdings Foundation: $15K on this topic. Open the funder. Enterprise Holdings Foundation $15K The Joffrey Ballet: received $2.5M on this topic The Joffrey Ballet $2.5M Discovery Green Conservancy: received $1.5M on this topic Discovery Green Conservancy $1.5M National Sunday Schl & Holiness Yth: received $790K on this topic National Sunday Schl & Holiness… $790K Sunday Breakfast Mission: received $432K on this topic Sunday Breakfast Mission $432K Delaware Art Museum: received $268K on this topic Delaware Art Museum $268K Chicago Sunday Evening Club: received $214K on this topic Chicago Sunday Evening Club $214K Sunday Breakfast Mission: received $165K on this topic Sunday Breakfast Mission $165K Indiana Student Financial Aid Assoc: received $100K on this topic Indiana Student Financial Aid A… $100K Indiana Student Financial Aid Assn: received $100K on this topic Indiana Student Financial Aid A… $100K Big Sunday: received $85K on this topic Big Sunday $85K Sunday Breakfast Mission Inc: received $78K on this topic Sunday Breakfast Mission Inc $78K Kick the Stereotypes: received $60K on this topic Kick the Stereotypes $60K Metro World Child: received $53K on this topic Metro World Child $53K Surgery On Sunday Inc: received $48K on this topic Surgery On Sunday Inc $48K Friends of Warner Parks: received $16K on this topic Friends of Warner Parks $16K Monteagle Sunday School Assembly: received $15K on this topic Monteagle Sunday School Assembly $15K Warehouse Theatre: received $8K on this topic Warehouse Theatre $8K Temple of Israel: received $7K on this topic Temple of Israel $7K Sunday Friends Foundation: received $6K on this topic Sunday Friends Foundation $6K Sunday Breakfast: received $4K on this topic Sunday Breakfast $4K 12 funders, 20 recipients, grants matching “sunday” only. Ribbon width is proportional to the total given; each funder has its own colour (smaller funders in gray). Hover a name to isolate its flows, click a funder to open it. Drag to move around; zoom with the buttons, a double-click, or the wheel after clicking the map. Largest: $789,655 to NATIONAL SUNDAY SCHL & HOLINESS YTH — nurturing children-worship & prayer
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Largest: $57,194 to Chicago Sunday Evening Club — general support for programs, operations and other charitable purposes
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Largest: $455,000 to DISCOVERY GREEN CONSERVANCY — spring 2025 jazzy sunday series
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Largest: $60,000 to KICK THE STEREOTYPES — the super skills 10 futbol sunday school
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Largest: $10,750 to METRO WORLD CHILD — sunday school program and feeding program
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Largest: $18,019 to SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC — to further the exempt purpose of the organization
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Largest: $5,000 to Warehouse Theatre — towards i pay what i can sunday shows
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Largest: $50,000 to SUNDAY BREAKFAST MISSION — project support
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Largest: $50,000 to Sunday Breakfast Mission — financial assistance
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Largest: $268,062 to DELAWARE ART MUSEUM — support for healing through the arts (hta), healing through the arts program, family sunday programming and unrestricted support.
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Largest: $3,000 to SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — program support
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Largest: $27,500 to BIG SUNDAY — philanthropic activity
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