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The 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $3,000,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000,000 |
| RHODES COLLEGE | $1,220,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS | $800,000 |
| PORTER-LEATH CHILDREN'S CENTER | $500,000 |
| ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES | $500,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $335,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF MEMPHIS | $287,500 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $250,000 |
| MAYO SCHOOL OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $250,000 |
| VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| ST AGNES ACADEMY - ST DOMINIC SCHOOL | $173,667 |
| BINGHAMPTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $125,000 |
| ROOM IN THE INN | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
YOUTH VILLAGES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30M · revenue +140%- RCRhodes College8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +13%
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +54%
Funded once
- AMAVE MARIA FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +24% · 33% of their budget
- OPOVERTON PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -34%
- MCMEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -100%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Memphis tomorrow is an association of ceos of memphis' largest businesses working to promote opportunity and quality of life for all memphians through collective action and public-private partnerships.
To provide housing and services to low, very low, and extremely low income families.
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
To empower adults in south memphis to break cycles of unemployment, establish economic stability, reconcile relationships, and restore dignity through knowledge, resources, and skills by the power of jesus christ.
To encourage philanthropy and foster leadership among women and support programs that enable women and children to reach their full potential.
Advocate, educate and unite communities
To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emmanuel Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Association for Women Attorneys Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 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. 38 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE HEALTHCARE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VISIBLE MUSIC COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW DAY SCHOOLS INC DBA COMPASS COMMUNITY SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MADONNA LEARNING CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REACH MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORNAMENTAL METAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNION MISSON ↗
- Who funds ANGEL STREET INC ↗
- Who funds Karat Place Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · United Way of the Mid South · Jewish Foundation of Memphis · Jr Hyde III Family Foundation · Speer Charitable Trust · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Self Foundation · Rose Montgomery Johnston Family Foundation · Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
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 The Day 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.
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.
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