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Deborah and Tj Day Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $158k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINFIELD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY | $35,000 |
| NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART | $12,500 |
| CAMPCARE NEVADA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MOMS ON THE RUN | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RLROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +50%
- LULinfield University9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +3%
- NMNevada Museum of Art8× · 2018–2025 · $204k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CA AND NVone grant, 2020 · $9k
- EHEDDY HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +336%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%
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.
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The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.
Northeastern nevada historcial society is dedicated to the preservation of the hertitage, culture, and natural history of northeastern nevada. our ongoing goals are to establish a western art center and nourish the western culture that…
To protect private property rights and enhance the success and profitability of the real estate profession.
To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.
The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.
To protect and restore sierra lands, water, wildlife and rural communities. to engage and support efforts to adopt exemplary local sustainable community actions accross the sierra nevada that balance social, economic and environmental…
Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.
To support programs providing the highest quality service to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. these services include a residential program at eagle valley children's home and a respite program provided in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Club of Mason Valley. 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 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 42 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 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOMS ON THE RUN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Campcare Nevada Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sierra Nevada College ↗
- Who funds NOAH'S ANIMAL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CABINET INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern Nevada ↗
- Who funds THE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Sky Tavern Inc ↗
- Who funds Range Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHOE COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEVADA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN FOLKLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth In Pursuit ↗
- Who funds THE JOSH FARLER HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF NORTHERN NEVADA ↗
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: Willametta K Day Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · Renown Health · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · The Confidence Foundation · The Bretzlaff Foundation Inc · Edna B & Bruno Benna 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 organization Deborah and Tj Day 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.
- Linfield University — 4% 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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