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Day Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
97% of Day Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation Of Greater Birmingham, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Day Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $40k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REJOICE AND HOPE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| OPERA BIRMINGHAM | $5,000 |
| FREEDOM RAIN INC - THE LOVELADY CENTER | $5,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $3,334 |
| CREATE BIRMINGHAM | $2,500 |
| FROST VALLEY YMCA | $1,500 |
| TRIUMPH SERVICE | $1,500 |
| FORESTBURGH FIRE HOUSE | $1,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| FAMILY CONNECTIONS | $1,000 |
| MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING | $1,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $1,000 |
| SAVE BARNEGAT BAY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Day Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- FVFROST VALLEY YMCA3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +34%
- GHGRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +237%
SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERone grant, 2019 · $8k
- MCMCWANE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bainbridge island museum of art (bima) inspires curiosity, wonder and understanding by connecting people with the contemporary art and craft of the puget sound region.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
We collect, preserve, display, and interpret the maritime history, culture and art of the columbia river, its tributaries, and the waters of the north pacific for the education and enjoyment of the public.
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
Creating excellent exhibits and educational experiences that celebrate the santa barbara channel and illuminate our rich connections with the sea.
The Museum engages the community in exploring the diversity of our whaling heritage and its impacts to enrich and inform our lives.
Fernbank museum of natural history inspires a lifelong learning of natural history through immersive programming and unmatched experiences to encourage a greater appreciation of our planet and its inhabitants. fernbank is dedicated to…
To preserve and interpret the maritime history and heritage of biloxi and the mississippi gulf coast.
The southampton history museum preserves and promotes the history and culture of southampton by engaging diverse audiences in our shared heritage.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The mission of the chesapeake bay maritime museum cbmm is to preserve and explore the history, environment, and people of the chesapeake bay. the vision of the chesapeake bay maritime museum is to be the premier see sched o
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is New Jersey Museum of Boating. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds Rejoice and Hope Ministries International ↗
- Who funds OPERA BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds GRACE HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds TRIUMPH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Preaching Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Museum of Boating ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Protective Life Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Day Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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