· Private foundation
Deany's Days Foundation
Its FY2024 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
70% of Deany's Days Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Hillsdale College, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $460k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $460,000 |
| INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE | $110,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $65,000 |
| NORTHSOUND ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC EDUCATION ARCHBISHOP MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| SOUTH WHIDBEY ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $7,500 |
| CITIZEN DEFENSE ACTION FUND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ISINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $235k · revenue -36%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $155k · revenue +24%- TNTHE NORTHSOUND ASSOCIATION FOR CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP MURPHY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HPHitching Post Ministriesgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +150%
- WMWATER MISSION (UKRAINE)one grant, 2022 · $35k
- ICIsland Christian Academyone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +72%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.
In partnership with parents, Artesia Classical Academy equips students to be Christlike disciples and servant-leaders who know and share God's Word.
See Disclosure Above.
Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.
Liberty's mission is to provide a holistic college preparatory eduction in a nurturing, Christ-centered environment.
The mission of Dominion Ridge Academy is to provide a Christian understanding of God, man, and the universe based on biblical and natural revelation through an integrated curriculum.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 10 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Deany's Days Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deany's Days Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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