Massachusetts · Private foundation
Nancy Sayles 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.
- $914k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 28% of the organizations Nancy Sayles Day Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $914k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $724k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $643k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $382k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $621k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc | $1,736,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lahey Clinic Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nantucket Land & Water Council Inc | $76,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Nantucket Community Sailing Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Prospect Hill Cemetery Charitable Trust | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Palliative and Supportive Care of Nantucket Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Artists Association of Nantucket Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Addiction Solutions of Nantucket Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 9% |
| A Safe Place Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($488k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Nancy Sayles Day Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Thayer & E Geoffrey Verney Foundation · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Clara Foundation Inc · The Rein Family Foundation Inc · Cox Foundation Inc · Gilbert Verney Foundation · King Spruce Company · The Hale Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Nancy Sayles Day Foundation
- How much does Nancy Sayles Day Foundation give?
- Nancy Sayles Day Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $913,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Nancy Sayles Day Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Health (24%), Recreation & Sports (3%).
- Who are Nancy Sayles Day Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc ($1.7M), Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc ($300k), Lahey Clinic Inc ($180k).
- Does Nancy Sayles Day Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Nancy Sayles Day Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy Sayles Day Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc, Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc, Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc.
- Where is Nancy Sayles Day Foundation based?
- Nancy Sayles Day Foundation is based in MA.
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