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Today Is a Good Day Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $104k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $60,000 |
| JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS | $41,476 |
| BMI FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BANNER HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ASPEN JEWISH CONGREGATION | $12,344 |
| GOFUNDMEORG | $6,818 |
| FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $6,500 |
| THEATRE ASPEN | $6,222 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN AZ | $5,000 |
| ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,641 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $2,500 |
| BRIDGING BIONIC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,762 |
| Individual grant recipient | $752 |
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 (FY19–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- NBNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $524k · revenue +38%
- TUTHE ULI FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +97%
- TATHEATRE ASPEN9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- PMPENN MEDICINEone grant, 2019 · $15k
- PNPACIFIC NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $15k
- GVGOFUNDME - VARIOUS CAMPAIGNSone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jack Roth Charitable Foundation. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 105 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 NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ULI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds Aspen Jewish Center ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Bridging Bionics Foundation ↗
- Who funds BMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRED LEWIS FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH HANDBALL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN SANTA FE BALLET ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds TUCSON HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 for Southern Arizona · Aspen Community Foundation · Donald Pitt Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · American Express Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Today Is a Good 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.