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FirstDay Foundation shall provide general administrative support and services to organizations which are exempt from federal income taxation as described in the internal revenue code.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$7.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Human Services$70MHealth$27MPublic Safety & Disaster$23MInternational$5.3MEducation$3.4MHousing & Shelter$285kCrime & Legal$170kReligion$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $18,717,279 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,296,719 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $579,440 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $715k
  • $250k+8 grants · $18M
$130,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$903M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND RESPONSE$7,113,535
COMPASS CONNECTIONS$3,470,226
CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$1,832,516
BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES$1,642,868
BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE$1,593,595
INNOVATIVE NETWORK OF KNOWLEDGE$1,381,706
SILVER CLIFF RANCH$482,219
THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN (YMCA OF AUSTIN)$250,000
SOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL$215,000
CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC$185,000
CORAZON MINSTIRES INC$135,000
THE GREATER SAN ANTONIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$130,000
HELPING OPRESSED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE$50,000
COMPASS UNITED$45,614
HAVEN FOR HOPE OF BEXAR COUNTY$40,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $42.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WHITE HEART FOUNDATION: $17k → 5%MERCY CHEFS: $18k → 20%CHOSEN CARE INC: $100k → 10%THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN (YMCA OF AUSTIN): $250k → 10%CORAZON MINSTIRES INC: $135k → 16%A CHILD'S PLACE LEARNING CENTER INC: $50k → 13%THE CHILDRENS SHELTER: $350k → 16%SOUTH ALAMO REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $100k → 16%FAMILIES & LITERACY INC: $8k → 13%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $13.6M → 16%BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE: $5.6M → 16%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $5.5M → 16%ART 2 HEART: $8k → 13%BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE: $4.6M → 16%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $3.5M → 16%BCFS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $2.7M → 16%BRECKENRIDGE VILLAGE: $1.1M → 16%BAPTIST CARE FACILITIES FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL DI: $1.0M → 16%Project Angel Fares: $109k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC: $185k → 16%CHRISTIAN ASSISTANCE MINISTRY INC: $175k → 16%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $19k → 16%PROJECT ANGEL FARES: $6k → 16%SOUTH ALAMO REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%COMPASS CONNECTIONS: $3.2M → 16%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.

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.

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.
$127M · 17 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
28

Total granted

$127M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
0%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $899k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentReligionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • BV
    Breckenridge Village
    8× · 2017–2025 · $26M · revenue +9% · 64% of their budget
  • CC
    Compass Connections
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8.3M · revenue ×6,654 · 48% of their budget
  • CE
    CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $5.2M · revenue +225% · 67% of their budget

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER
    one grant, 2019 · $350k · revenue -29%
  • CJ
    CIRCLE J MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · 64% of their budget
  • AH
    ANNUNCIATION HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k

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.

1
Crisis Center of West Texas

Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.

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2
Hope's Door New Beginning Center

The mission of hope's door new beginning center is to offer intervention and prevention services to individuals and families affected by intimate partner and family violence and to provide education programs that enhance the community's…

Human Services
3
Children's Aid Society of West Tx Inc

To provide shelter, supervision, and counseling for children in crisis; to cooperate with other agencies in order to resolve problems related to the welfare of these children; to assist the families of these children in seeking possible…

Human Services
4
Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
5
Crisis Assistance Center Inc dba Community Assistance Center

To provide emergency assistance to people in Montgomery County, TX who are in an unexpected crisis.

Human Services
6
Texas Community Counseling

When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…

Human Services
7
Healing Hands Ministries Inc

Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.

Health
8
Recovery Resource Council

To promote wellness and recovery from alcohol and substance use disorders and trauma.

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9
Children At Heart Ministries Inc

Children at heart ministries is a family of christian ministries that exists to honor god and build a better world by serving children and strengthening families.

Human Services
10
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
11
Central Texas Children's Home

To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.

Human Services
12
Crosspoint Inc

Crosspoint exists to build safer and stronger communities by empowering individuals to lead productive lives.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bcfs Health and Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Art 2 Heart. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyInternational Christian Min…Healthcare System Infrastru…Faith-Based Youth & Family …Professional Associations &…Labor Union LocalsReproductive Health ServicesAnimal Shelter and RescueYouth Sports ProgramsTexas Policy Advocacy Organ…
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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%0%<5yr15%22%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr15%34%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr18%52%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
14%
2,360/17,368

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.

04the grantee network

53 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 58 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
27/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BCFS Health and Human Services — $58,818,875 · Human ServicesBCFS Health and Human ServicesBreckenridge Village — $26,228,957 · Human ServicesBreckenridge VillageCompass Connections — $8,287,863 · Human ServicesCompass Connections+14 more — $3,310,580 · Human ServicesNational Emergency Management and Response — $19,334,911 · OtherNational Emergency M…Emergency Management and Response — $2,970,108 · OtherEmergency Management…+26 more — $985,577 · OtherCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL — $5,221,062 · International+2 more — $200,000 · InternationalInnovative Network of Knowledge — $3,269,565 · Youth Development+2 more — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHWEST TEXAS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL — $215,000 · HealthHILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC — $75,000 · HealthTriple H Equitherapy Center — $33,000 · Health+1 more — $5,150 · HealthCEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY — $110,000 · EducationCELEBRATE DYSLEXIA — $10,000 · EducationGRACE HOUSE INC — $110,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$96,646,275Other$23,290,596International$5,421,062Youth Development$3,289,565Health$328,150Education$120,000Crime & Legal$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBCFS Health and Human Services — $58,818,875 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetBreckenridge Village — $26,228,957 over 8y, 64% of budgetNational Emergency Management and Response — $19,334,911 over 4y, 99% of budgetCompass Connections — $8,287,863 over 6y, 48% of budgetCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL — $5,221,062 over 8y, 67% of budgetInnovative Network of Knowledge — $3,269,565 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetEmergency Management and Response — $2,970,108 over 2y, 17% of budgetSilver Cliff Ranch — $1,861,374 over 5y, 100% of budgetChristian Assistance Ministry — $360,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF AUSTIN — $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRACE HOUSE INC — $110,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetCEDARS INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY — $110,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH ALAMO REGIONAL ALLIANCE FOR THE HOMELESS DBA CLOSE TO HOME — $110,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetHELPING OPPRESSED PEOPLE EVERYWHERE — $100,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCIRCLE J MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetCHOSEN CARE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHEARTS NEED ART — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYOUTH CHOIRS INC DBA YouthCUE — $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetALPHA HOME INC — $80,968 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC — $75,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetHILL COUNTRY CASA INC — $60,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION — $52,730 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA CHILDS PLACE LEARNING CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCompass United — $45,614 over 1y, 99% of budgetHaven for Hope of Bexar County — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTriple H Equitherapy Center — $33,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHILL COUNTRY MINISTRIES INC — $33,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTexas Network of Youth Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMorgan's Wonderland — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWARFIGHTER SCUBA — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF — $17,320 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWHITE HEART FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH TEXAS INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEL PASO POLICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetSAN ANTONIO COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG AWARENESS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN ANTONIO AND BEXAR COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEMONADE CIRCLE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE DYSLEXIA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLUFKIN NEIGHBORHOOD STRONG — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DEE HOWARD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSTUDENTS OF SERVICE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCULTURINGUA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetART 2 HEART — $8,333 over 1y, 18% of budgetELEVATE ADULT EDUCATION INC — $8,333 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSHARED BEAT — $5,150 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

San Antonio Area Foun…Harvey E Najim Charit…Methodist Healthcare …Faye L & William L Co…John L Santikos Chari…The Community Foundat…San Antonio Food BankPerry & Ruby Stevens …Hal & Charlie Peterso…Floyd a & Kathleen C …The Texas Cavaliers C…United Way of San Ant…
San Antonio Area FoundationTX40.1× affinity18 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 Foundation · Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Food Bank · Perry & Ruby Stevens Charitable Foundation · Hal & Charlie Peterson Foundation & Fd Mgmt Trust · Floyd a & Kathleen C Cailloux Foundation · The Texas Cavaliers Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 58 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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