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The Daylight 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.

$115k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$40k
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 FY2017–2023.

Food & Nutrition$550kAnimals$275kHealth$135kEducation$135kHuman Services$105kPhilanthropy$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$90kEnvironment$80kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD BANK CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO$40,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA INC$25,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$20,000
EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK$5,000
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC$5,000
ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON$5,000
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 (FY18–22, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $15k → 8%BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $25k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $30k → 14%THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $5k → 14%GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
MD
KS
DC
AL
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of The Daylight Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Daylight Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$675k · 10 repeat orgs$782k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
35

Total granted

$675k
$782k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
    2× · 2021–2023 · $165k · revenue +25%
  • SM
    ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC
    3× · 2018–2023 · $90k · revenue +147%
  • RE
    REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
    3× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $65k · revenue +185%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +2%

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
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
7
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
10
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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11
California State Parks Foundation

California state parks foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the california state park system for the benefit of all.

Recreation & Sports
12
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …
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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 24% 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%0/47
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,931

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.

05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
31/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $165,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND …REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $85,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANKMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC — $85,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA I…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALL…HEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $30,000 · Food & NutritionHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INCCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $25,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD…+1 more — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $50,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKHOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE — $45,000 · OtherHOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUENATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $35,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $25,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $20,000 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSAVE MOUNT DIABLO — $25,000 · OtherLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $25,000 · OtherDorothy Day House — $25,000 · OtherSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 · Other+8 more — $82,000 · Other+8 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $119,685 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS — $65,000 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR …NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $10,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPAN…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…Partnership With Native Americans — $30,000 · Human ServicesPartnership W…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES …GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FO…+2 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $90,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $10,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $40,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $40,000 · AnimalsAlley Cat Allies Inc — $10,000 · Animals
Food & Nutrition$450,000Other$512,000Education$209,685Human Services$205,000Health$110,000Philanthropy$100,000Animals$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $165,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $119,685 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC — $85,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT NEWS — $65,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF ALABAMA FOOD BANK INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE MOUNT DIABLO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLINDSAY WILDLIFE MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDorothy Day House — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cedars of Marin — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Marin Community Found…The Blackbaud Giving …East Bay Community Fo…McKesson Foundation I…The San Francisco Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…California Community …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…
Marin Community FoundationCA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · East Bay Community Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · California Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation

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 Daylight 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 · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 49 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines