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Kelly Day 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.

$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$454kReligion$310kPhilanthropy$259kHuman Services$130kArts & Culture$82kHealth$69kYouth Development$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$125,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$125,000
ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$42,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $167k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE COLLEGUES: $50k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $25k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $25k → 14%The Colleagues: $20k → 14%THE COLLEAGUES: $10k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $22k → 14%TAKING THE REINS: $15k → 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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$912k · 6 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$912k
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+26%

Still filing today

83%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthCrime & LegalOther
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

  • VE
    VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +43%
  • TT
    TAKING THE REINS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $37k · revenue +46%
  • FA
    Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children
    2× · 2020–2021 · $35k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FA
    FIRST AMERICAN TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $122k
  • CU
    Creighton Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • OI
    ONE805 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · 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
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Los Angeles Police Foundation

The mission of lapf is to create partnerships to provide resources and programs that help the police perform at their highest level and to enhance lapd-community relations.(see schedule o)

Human Services
3
Arts for La

Arts for la leads communities, artists and organizations to advocate for an equitable, healthy, and creative los angeles region through the arts.

Arts & Culture
4
Newfilmmakers Los Angeles

Works by emerging filmmkaers from around the world, providing the losangeles community of entertainment professionals and film goers with aconstant surge of monthly screening events. nfmla provides a forumwhere filmmakers can be recognized…

Arts & Culture
5
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation

Provide essential equipment, training and public outreach programs for the los angeles fire department to supplement city resources.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
7
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
8
Ojai Festivals Ltd

The ojai music festival serves as a creative music laboratory for pioneering new works,championing adventurous programming, and working with today's emerging artists with events during the year and the ojai music festival serves as a…

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies

The Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) is dedicated to enhancing the United States' image abroad through American Art. Founded as a public-private, non-partisan partnership in 1986, FAPE works with the U.S. Department…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
California Film Institute

The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…

Arts & Culture
12
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Music for Unity. 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-: $335,000 · OtherCAMPBELL HALL -EPISCOPAL-VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $325,000 · OtherVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONFIRST AMERICAN TRUST: $122,000 · OtherFIRST AMERICAN TRUST+4 more: $42,000 · OtherTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $130,000 · Human ServicesTHE COLLEAGUE…TAKING THE REINS: $37,000 · Human ServicesTAKING THE RE…ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COU…ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $11,750 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINM…Creighton University: $100,000 · EducationCreighton…CREATE NOW INC: $18,000 · EducationCREATE NO…THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $4,450 · EducationFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATES: $19,550 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & Culture911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 · HealthONE805 INC: $30,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$824,000Human Services$167,000Philanthropy$136,750Education$122,450Arts & Culture$81,550Health$50,000Public Safety & Disaster$30,000

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 budgetVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC: $130,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget911 AT EASE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTAKING THE REINS: $37,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFree Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children: $35,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetONE805 INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATE NOW INC: $18,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $11,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Force USA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $4,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMUSIC FOR UNITY: $2,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

California Community …Wm Keck FoundationThe Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Orange County Communi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
California Community FoundationCA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Kelly Day Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Kelly Day 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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