How much did DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION reported 60 grants totaling $63,250 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION based?

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION is based in CO.

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$63k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$5k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTD$5,250
TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC$4,000
THE PINHEAD INSTITUTE INC$3,000
BLAIR ACADEMY$3,000
TELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE CO$2,500
SAN MIQUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND$2,500
KUTE INC$2,000
TELLURIDE TV$2,000
RICO CENTER$2,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$1,500
AREI INC$1,000
BLUE SAGE CENTER$1,000
DZI FOUNDATION$1,000
THE HILL SCHOOL$1,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Telluride Council for the Arts and Humanities

Provide programs and services that connect and strengthen community through the arts.

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The Colorado College

To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.

Education

Sonoma Mountain Institute

Environment

Telluride Mountain School Inc

The School delivers a program of challenging academics that promotes critical thinking, aesthetic expression and ethical behavior, while encompassing a commitment to community service, global citizenship and engagement with the natural…

Education

San Juan Mountains Association

To empower visitors and locals to explore, learn about, and protect the spectacular public lands of Southwest Colorado.

Environment

Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture

Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment

Taos Art Museum

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Southwest Research Institute

Benefiting government, industry & the public through innovative science & technology.

Science & Tech

Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment

Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

The Wild Rockies Field Institute offers academically rigorous, place-based field courses that develop engaged, informed citizens and strong leaders capable of addressing complex social and environmental issues.

Education

Sundance Institute

Sundance institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Grand Canyon Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mills College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/35

the rest of the field

11%

3,769/33,382

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/35

Grantees still filing

26/35

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$38,000Arts & Culture$6,500Education$5,250Environment$4,500Social Science$4,000Youth Development$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO29× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Telluride Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Community Foundation of The · Cornet Creek Foundation · Ebb Point Foundation- Blackrock · The Thomas Phillips and Jane · The Denver Foundation · Just For Kids Foundation Inc · The Lisa and Victor Nemeroff Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · The Mclaughlin Doty Foundation

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 organisation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 840964478 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Day Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Day Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Day Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DAY FAMILY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

35 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Day Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph