How much does Deborah and Tj Day Foundation give?

Deborah and Tj Day Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $317,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Deborah and Tj Day Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are Deborah and Tj Day Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Robert Louis Stevenson School ($265k), Linfield University ($245k), Nevada Museum of Art ($204k).

Does Deborah and Tj Day Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Deborah and Tj Day 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 Deborah and Tj Day Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Willametta K Day Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Nevada, NV Energy Charitable Foundation.

Where is Deborah and Tj Day Foundation based?

Deborah and Tj Day Foundation is based in NV.

Deborah and Tj Day Foundation

Deborah and Tj Day Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$318k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$595kArts & Culture$276kYouth Development$160kPhilanthropy$115kHealth$111kHuman Services$110kReligion$68kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $60k
$10k–50k13 grants · $158k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL	$50,000
LINFIELD COLLEGE	$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY	$35,000
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART	$12,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS	$10,000
NORTHERN NEVADA CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION	$10,000
RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC	$10,000
OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS SCHOOL	$10,000
SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL	$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION	$10,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA	$10,000
COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE	$10,000
CAMPCARE NEVADA FOUNDATION	$10,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHERN NEVADA	$10,000
MOMS ON THE RUN	$10,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.5M · 32 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+336%

Still filing today

72%

86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

RL
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +50%
LU
Linfield University
9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +3%
NM
Nevada Museum of Art
8× · 2018–2025 · $204k · revenue +120%

Funded once

VO
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CA AND NV
one grant, 2020 · $9k
EH
EDDY HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +336%
AH
American Heart Association Incgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +53%

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.

04Its 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.

Healthy Nevada

Health

Carson Valley Health Foundation

None

Health

Nevada Wildlife Federation

The Nevada Wildlife Federation is the Oldest 501(c)(3) statewide conservation organization dedicated to sustaining Nevada's wildlife through conservation and education.

Animals

Northeastern Nevada Historical Soci

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…

Arts & Culture

Nevada Realtors

To protect private property rights and enhance the success and profitability of the real estate profession.

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Nevada Mining Association

To further the interests of the mining industry in nevada.

—

Tahoe Community Foundation

The Foundation envisions a thriving community created through meaningful philanthropy, inclusive communication, and the willingness to explore possibilities together.

Education

Sierra Nevada Alliance

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…

Environment

Nevada Agricultural Foundation

Food & Nutrition

Nevada Public Radio

Nevada public radio will enhance the quality of life and foster civic engagement by informing, education and inspiring our growing audiences.

Arts & Culture

The Nevada Bighorns Foundation

Education

Nevada Children's Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 42 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/33

Grantees still filing

25/33

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$546,500Other$443,200Arts & Culture$253,500Youth Development$172,900Human Services$95,000Health$44,500Food & Nutrition$35,000

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Willametta K Day FoundationCA55.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Deborah and Tj Day Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Deborah and Tj Day Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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