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Doris Day and Terry Melcher 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$298k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222024.

Animals$2.4MEducation$808k
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+1 grant · $298k
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION$298,362
PASADENA HUMANE$150,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER$100,000
UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION$100,000
EVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY$100,000
NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY$80,000
LIFESAVERS$75,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $104k → 15%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%IDAHO HUMANE SOCIETY: $100k → 8%PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $100k → 10%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $307k → 14%UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $100k → 16%LIFESAVERS: $75k → 18%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $104k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION: $100k → 19%IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%EVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $80k → 12%VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY: $100k → 12%DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $298k → 14%UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: $100k → 16%LIFESAVERS: $75k → 18%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $100k → 22%AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100k → 14%EVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION: $100k → 15%DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $229k → 14%PASADENA HUMANE: $150k → 14%PASADENA HUMANE: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 32% of Doris Day and Terry Melcher Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 54% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 23% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Doris Day and Terry Melcher Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$2.7M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+30%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

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AnimalsEducationOther

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

  • DD
    DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $835k · revenue +100%
  • TA
    Texas A&M Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · $204k · revenue +43%
  • VW
    VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • IH
    Idaho Humane Society Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +33%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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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Humane Society of Utah

The humane society of utah is dedicated to the elimination of pain, fear, and suffering in all animals. in 2024, hsu provided over 13,000 affordable spay/neuter surgeries, administered 121,000 vaccinations, adopted 6,363 pets into loving…

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
5
North Dakota State University Foundation

Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.

Education
6
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
7
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
8
Nevada Humane Society

To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.

Animals
9
Hawaiian Humane Society

The hawaiian humane society works to improve the welfare of animals through animal care, education, legislation, and prevention on the island of oahu. its mission is to promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals.

Animals
10
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
11
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
12
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lifesavers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $834,852 · AnimalsDORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATIONPASADENA HUMANE — $250,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANEVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $200,000 · AnimalsVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETYEVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 · AnimalsEVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION INCAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $180,000 · AnimalsNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETYLIFESAVERS INC — $150,000 · AnimalsLIFESAVERS INCFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $100,000 · AnimalsIdaho Humane Society Inc — $100,000 · AnimalsUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $304,000 · EducationUniversity of Arizona Founda…Texas A&M Foundation — $204,000 · EducationTexas A&M FoundationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FO…THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FO…IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDA…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $200,000 · Other
Animals$2,214,852Education$808,000Other$200,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDORIS DAY ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $834,852 over 3y, 20% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation — $304,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation — $204,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY — $200,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetEVERYCAT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $200,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY — $180,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLIFESAVERS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Doris Day and Terry Melcher 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Doris Day and Terry Melcher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Doris Day and Terry Melcher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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