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The Daymarc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$179,989
Organizations funded a year
6 to 30
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Daymarc Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $401k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$1.6M40%
FY202430$1.4M43%
FY202326$997k38%
FY202218$502k89%
FY20216$88kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$841kEnvironment$636kArts & Culture$630kYouth Development$615kEducation$428kPhilanthropy$347kScience & Tech$310kHuman Services$291kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Daymarc Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta for a Day Incorporated: $302,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetThe Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc: $259,550 over 4y, 18% of budgetNational Braille Press Inc: $205,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $163,386 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $151,201 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSibling Connections Inc: $145,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetCourageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNortheastern University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise Metrowest Inc: $94,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBoston Harbor Now Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTrinity Boston Connects Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWondermore Inc: $70,193 over 2y, 12% of budgetBoston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEdesia Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStonehill College Inc: $32,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBow Seat Creative Action for Conservation: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetThe Baseball Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCity Strings United Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBuddy Dog Humane Society Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSquashbusters Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,698 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Verizon Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Daymarc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Daymarc 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.

About The Daymarc Foundation

How much does The Daymarc Foundation give?
The Daymarc Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,620,552 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Daymarc Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (18%), Environment (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are The Daymarc Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Santa for a Day Incorporated ($302k), The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Inc ($260k), National Braille Press Inc ($205k).
Does The Daymarc Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Daymarc Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Daymarc Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Daymarc Foundation based?
The Daymarc Foundation is based in MA.

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 57 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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