How much did FirstDay Foundation grant in FY2024?

FirstDay Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $15,919,187 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is FirstDay Foundation based?

FirstDay Foundation is based in TX.

FirstDay Foundation

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· Public charity

FirstDay Foundation

FirstDay Foundation provides support to the FirstDay Foundation affiliated organizations in their efforts to care for children, adults, and families in need around the world.

$16M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$6.6M

Largest

01What you fund

0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.

Human Services$85MInternational$3.5MYouth Development$1.9MHealth$113kCrime & Legal$110kEducation$110kArts & Culture$100kPhilanthropy$63kCivil Rights$50kOther$16M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

women

2023

managesspecialhealthcarehomelesspreventhopehealth

2024

dyslexiayoungscubachoirsstudentveteransexperiences

2025

kerrspiritmind bodyillnessexperiencing homelessnesskerrville petspets alive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k8 grants · $112k
$50k–250k6 grants · $703k
$250k+7 grants · $15M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$868M

Total assets

Largest grants

NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE$6,600,811
COMPASS CONNECTIONS$3,180,078
BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$2,460,839
BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE$887,829
CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$758,810
SILVER CLIFF RANCH$506,085
INNOVATIVE NETWORK OF KNOWLEDGE$438,119
CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC$175,000
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE$172,482
YOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YOUTHCUE$100,000
CIRCLE J MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC$100,000
CEDARS ACADEMY$100,000
ALPHA HOME$55,968
HILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC$25,000
WARFIGHTER SCUBA$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $37.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$105M · 12 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$105M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+56%

Still filing today

100%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $562k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

PA
Project Angel Fares
5× · 2020–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +665274% · 48% of their budget
CE
CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
6× · 2019–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +90% · 54% of their budget
IN
Innovative Network of Knowledge
6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +58%

Funded once

TC
THE CHILDRENS SHELTER
one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue -59%
AH
ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC
one grant, 2019 · $100k
CC
CHOSEN CARE INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +513%

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.

Sunny Glen Children's Home Inc

Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and

Human Services

Covenant House Texas

Covenant house texas shelters, protects, and advocates on behalf of homeless, trafficked, and sexually exploited youth.

Human Services

El Paso Area Christian Counseling Service

Counseling Services offering hope, healing, and restoration to hurting people, marriages, and families using respected therapy practices and solid biblical principles.

Human Services

Texas Community Counseling

To Bring hopeand healing through mental health care to the comnmunities that need it the most.

Human Services

The Retreat Home for Children

Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.

Crime & Legal

Htx Hope Haven

We are moving people from crisis to lifelong self-sufficiency. We help the homeless and marginalized people in our community navigate through the services available to become self-supporting contributing members of our community.

Human Services

Elevate North Texas

Elevate North Texas offers a welcoming affirming environment with immediate short-term housing and personal case management for youth 18-24 in crisis partnering with them to create a path to housing stability.

Health

Hope's Door New Beginning Center

To offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by domestic violence and to provide educational programs that enhance the community's capacity to respond. program and services include: 24 hour crisis…

Human Services

Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas provides services to individuals affected by domestic and sexual violence. we provide shelter, counseling and advocacy to help build lives free from violence. we seek social change to end domestic and sexual…

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Circles of Care

Placement of children in foster homes for the state of texas, texas department of protective and regulatory services. the organization also provides adoption services, family counseling, youth counseling and crises intervention.

Human Services

Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

The children's aid society of west texas operates a custodial child care and teen runaway shelter. its mission is to provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve…

Human Services

Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Connections and the most unlike its peers is Innovative Network of Knowledge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/46

the rest of the field

11%

2,042/17,776

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

26/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$85,114,475Other$15,866,987International$3,458,531Youth Development$1,907,859Health$113,150Crime & Legal$110,000Education$110,000

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.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX38.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas · San Antonio Food Bank · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Social Venture Partners San Antonio · Kerr County United Way · Floyd a & Kathleen C · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100

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 organisation FirstDay 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: National Emergency Management and Response.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~0 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 742603561 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on National Emergency Management and Response, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 0 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to FirstDay Foundation?

Find your warmest path to FirstDay Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FirstDay Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to FirstDay Foundation?

More from the funding graph

FirstDay Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to FirstDay Foundation?

More from the funding graph