Sunlight Giving Grants

Sunlight Giving Grants aim to foster vibrant, diverse communities by ensuring all families have access to essential resources such as stable shelter, food security, and quality healthcare. By prioritizing organizations that support BIPOC, immigrants, and those living in poverty, Sunlight Giving focuses on creating joyful and safe environments for families with children aged 0-5. Their proactive funding approach identifies impactful nonprofits within the greater Silicon Valley area, dedicated to enhancing community well-being and opportunity.

Our Goals
Sunlight Giving seeks to build vibrant, diverse, and safe communities where all families have access to stable shelter, food security, quality health care, joy, and opportunity.
How we work
We aim to be nimble in our funding approach, directing our resources to organizations that center BIPOC, immigrants, women, and people living in poverty.
We identify grantees through a number of ways:
We proactively scan the landscape to identify organizations aligned with our current priorities and look to relevant research to inform our approach. We also reach out to field leaders and other funders to learn about needs, trends in the field, and nonprofits.
Core Programs
Access to food, safe and stable shelter, family support resources, and quality health care are necessary to sustain healthy families and strong communities. In addition, all families deserve access to spaces where kids can be kids, families can connect, and everyone feels safe. Sunlight Giving is dedicated to supporting nonprofits that ensure young children and their families living in poverty in greater Silicon Valley have access to the resources they need.
Food SecurityHousing StabilityFamily SupportHealth care accessSafe spacesFamily Opportunity

Eligibility

Have 501(c)3 status, or be a fiscally-sponsored projects or public agency Serve families with children age 0-5 in one or more of our giving areasWork in and serve residents from ten counties around the greater San Francisco Bay Area, as well as select regional, state, and national efforts that affect those communities

Ineligibility

We typically do not fund lobbying and activities to influence specific legislation, medical research, endowments, or individuals. In addition, we do not support organizations that discriminate against groups or individuals, or organizations that promote religious doctrine in the delivery of programs and services.