Tennessee · Private foundation
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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $159M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Day Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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 | 30 | $11M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $12M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $7.1M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $9.1M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $7.7M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $7.3M | 30% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $11M | 25% |
| FY2017 | 28 | $9.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Villages Inc | $30,012,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Rhodes College | $10,767,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Junior Achievement of Memphis and the Mid-South Inc | $2,650,000 | 4 | 44% |
| Mid-South Food Bank | $1,100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Alliance Healthcare Services | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Visible Music College | $900,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Binghampton Christian Academy Inc | $750,000 | 8 | 7% |
| New Day Schools Inc Dba Compass Community Schools | $715,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Madonna Learning Center Incorporated | $710,000 | 8 | 14% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Day Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 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
How this is measured
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About The Day Foundation
- How much does The Day Foundation give?
- The Day Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $11,461,994 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Day Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (43%), Education (32%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Day Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Youth Villages Inc ($30M), Rhodes College ($11M), Church Health Center of Memphis Inc ($3.0M).
- Does The Day Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The 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 The Day Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Day Foundation based?
- The Day Foundation is based in TN.
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