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Day Family Foundation at a glance

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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
14
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTD$5,250
TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC$4,000
BLAIR ACADEMY$3,000
THE PINHEAD INSTITUTE INC$3,000
TELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE CO$2,500
SAN MIQUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND$2,500
KUTE INC$2,000
RICO CENTER$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE$1,500
FRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATRE$1,000
HIGH COUNTRY NEWS$1,000
NORTH FORK VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO$1,000
AH HAA SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS$1,000
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DZI FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
AZ
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
2
The Mountain Institute Inc

Advance the well- being of mountain people and conservation of mountain environments.

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3
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
4
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
5
Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc

The mission of the alliance for sustainable energy llc (alliance) is to operate the u.s. department of energy's national renewable energy laboratory to advance the science and engineering of energy efficiency, sustainable transportation,…

Science & Tech
6
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
7
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
8
Creede Repertory Theatre

From its rocky mountain roots, creede repertory theatre serves as an artistic home to our rural community and beyond, through the creation of repertory seasons, dynamic educational programs, and compelling new works.

Arts & Culture
9
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
Upper Colorado River Alliance
Environment
12
San Juan Citizens Alliance

The San Juan Citizens Alliance advocates for clean air, pure water, and healthy lands - the foundations of resilient communities, ecosystems and economies in the San Juan Basin.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Telluride Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Ataxia Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 60 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
28/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTD: $5,250 · OtherTELLURIDE MOUNTAIN FILM LTDSAN MIGUEL EDUCATIONAL FUND: $2,500 · OtherSAN MIGUEL EDUCATIONAL FUNDTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE CO: $2,500 · OtherTELLURIDE REPERTORY THEATRE COIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRocky Mountain Institute: $1,500 · Other+34 more: $23,250 · Other+34 moreKUTE INC DBA KSUT PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 · Arts & CultureKUTE INC DBA …BLUE SAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBLUE SAGE CEN…Flint Institute of Arts: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFlint Institu…FRIENDS OF THE PARADISE THEATER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF TH…NORTH FORK VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH FORK VA…COMMUNITY RADIO PROJECT INC KSJD: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY RAD…COLORADO MUSIC HALL OF FAME: $500 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO MUSI…BLAIR ACADEMY: $3,000 · EducationBLAIR ACA…THE HILL SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationTHE HILL …THE TELLURIDE ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · EducationTHE TELLU…ECOACTION PARTNERS: $250 · EducationHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $1,000 · EnvironmentAREI INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentTHE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC: $500 · EnvironmentSHEEP MOUNTAIN ALLIANCE: $500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $500 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance: $500 · EnvironmentTHE TELLURIDE INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 · Social ScienceThe Pinhead Institute: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentRICO CENTER: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$37,000Arts & Culture$7,500Education$5,250Environment$4,500Social Science$4,000Youth Development$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Founda…Telluride FoundationCommunity Foundation …El Pomar FoundationThe Dalton Family Fou…The Thomas Phillips a…Nextfifty InitiativeRose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationValley Floor Preserva…Dw Frankel Foundation…Cornet Creek Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Day Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Day Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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