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The Mayday Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$812k
Granted FY2019
17
Grants FY2019
16
Organizations funded FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$54,853
Largest grant, FY2019
$100,833
States reached, FY2019
10
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($511k), not named here.

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How do I get to The Mayday Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Mayday Fund 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 Mayday Fund

How much does The Mayday Fund give?
The Mayday Fund reported 17 grants totaling $811,554 in its FY2019 IRS filing.
What does The Mayday Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (100%), Philanthropy (0%).
Who are The Mayday Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2019: Children's Hospital Corporation ($105k), American Pain Society ($56k), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($55k).
Does The Mayday Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Mayday Fund based?
The Mayday Fund is based in NY.

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 16 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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