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Day Family Foundation

Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$63k
Granted FY2017
60
Grants FY2017
59
Organizations funded FY2017
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Median grant, FY2017
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$5,250
States reached, FY2017
14
Total assets, FY2017
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($21k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Day Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Telluride Institute Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBlair Academy: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pinhead Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSan Miguel Educational Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKute Inc Dba Ksut Public Radio: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRico Center: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Sage Center for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlint Institute of Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Cedar Mesa: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDzi Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hill School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAh Haa School for the Arts: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSwallow Hill Music Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Science: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArei Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Grand Canyon Trust Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheep Mountain Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Music Hall of Fame: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTelluride Historical Museum Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorld Bicycle Relief Nfp: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarthjustice: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMills College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Chance Humane Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcoaction Partners: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO33.4× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Telluride Foundation · Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley · El Pomar Foundation · The Dalton Family Foundation · The Thomas Phillips and Jane Moore Johnson Foundation · Nextfifty Initiative · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Valley Floor Preservation Partners · Dw Frankel Foundation Inc · Cornet Creek Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Day Family Foundation

How much does Day Family Foundation give?
Day Family Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $63,250 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Day Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Environment (21%), Education (12%).
Who are Day Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: The Telluride Institute Inc ($4k), Blair Academy ($3k), The Pinhead Institute ($3k).
Does Day Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Day Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Telluride Foundation, Community Foundation of the Gunnison Valley.
Where is Day Family Foundation based?
Day Family Foundation is based in CO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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