Sunlight Giving

Sunlight Giving is a private foundation created by the WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton and his wife, Tegan.[1] The foundation supports low-income families with children age five and below living in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] It's a sister organization belonging to the Wildcard Giving family.[3]

Sunlight Giving
Formation2014
FounderBrian Acton and Tegan Acton
Founded atPalo Alto, California
TypePrivate Foundation
Headquarters855 El Camino Real, Building 4, Suite 200 Palo Alto, CA 94301
Key people
Brian Acton, Tegan Acton,
Parent organization
Wildcard Giving
WebsiteSunlight Giving's webpage

Support for safe spaces and organizations that provide food security, family support resources, housing stability, and health care access is between the goals of the foundation.[2]

Sunlight Giving has $470 million in assets. It granted $6.4 million in 2015, $19.2 million in 2016, and $23.6 million in 2017.[2] This private foundation helped to fund Magnify Community, a non-profit organization with the goal of redirect philanthropists' givings to nonprofits..[4]


References
  1. "Sunlight Giving". www.influencewatch.org. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  2. Hoffower, Hillary. "WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton invested $50 million into the Signal app — here's how he spends his $6.9 billion fortune". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  3. "Sunlight Giving Home | Sunlight Giving". sunlightgiving.org. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
  4. King, Danny (November 13, 2019). "Magnify Community Pledge calls on Silicon Valley millionaires and billionaires to invest more of their philanthropic dollars back into the local community". Bizjournals. Retrieved 2020-06-14.
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