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Delta Independence Day Foundation at a glance

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Delta Independence 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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Public Benefit$77kArts & Culture$35kHealth$34kHuman Services$30kFood & Nutrition$10kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$5kInternational$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $5k → 11%CENTRAL CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5k → 12%CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LOS ANGELES: $22k → 14%SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $22k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES: $10k → 14%SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SANTA MONICA FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH: $10k → 14%SEAL FAMILY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER GUILD - GLOBEMED AT UCLA: $2k → 14%SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM: $30k → 11%THE UCLA FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LAS FLORISTAS INC: $5k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $5k → 14%CITY OF HOPE: $5k → 14%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$119k · 3 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$119k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+108%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • SF
    SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $77k · revenue +60%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    2× · 2018–2020 · $32k · revenue +27%
  • CO
    CITY OF HOPE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $10k

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +26%
  • NS
    NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • SM
    SANTA MONICA FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -45%
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.

1
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
2
California Life Sciences Association

Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.

Community Improvement
3
California Surf Museum

The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…

Arts & Culture
4
California State University Los Angeles Alumni Association Inc

To foster relationships among alumni, students and community by providing services and activities that build loyalty, support and a lifelong connection to the university.

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5
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
6
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
7
University of Southern California Physical Therapy Associates

Clinical education for students, a clinical practice for faculty members and a site to conduct clinical research.

—
8
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
9
Las Madrinas

To improve and enrich the community of southern california through its support of children's hospital los angeles (chla) and the hospital's medical research or other charitable and philanthropic enterprises as determined by its membership.

—
10
Santa Maria Museum of Flight Inc

To serve as preservationist of past, present, and future aerospace and aeronautical artifacts, historical documents, and memorabilia of the santa maria valley and this nation.

Arts & Culture
11
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation

Building partnerships to advance research and education for the health of our nation's veterans.

Health
12
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Air & Space Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is Central California Labrador Retriever Rescue. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $77,000 · Public BenefitSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATIONNAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE FAMILY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherNAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE FAMILY …CITY OF HOPE: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPESANTA MONICA FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH: $10,000 · OtherSANTA MONICA FOUNDATION FOR N…CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD F…HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER GUILD - GLOBEMED AT UCLA: $2,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO AIR & SP…PALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS AIR M…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $32,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…LAS FLORISTAS INC: $5,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationCENTRAL CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5,000 · Animals
Public Benefit$77,000Other$57,000Arts & Culture$35,000Health$32,000Education$10,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANTA MONICA FOUNDATION FOR NUTRITIONAL RESEARCH: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPALM SPRINGS AIR MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA LABRADOR RETRIEVER RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetLAS FLORISTAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.6% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Delta Independence Day Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Delta Independence Day Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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