Arizona · Private foundation
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.
- $203k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $81k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Today Is a Good Day Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $193k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $246k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $118k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $135k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $35k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $228k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $173k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $96k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Brain Tumor Society Inc | $524,250 | 8 | 2% |
| The Uli Foundation | $63,875 | 7 | 0% |
| Theatre Aspen | $58,263 | 9 | 0% |
| Aspen Jewish Center | $38,804 | 5 | 1% |
| National Jewish Health | $33,860 | 5 | 0% |
| Bridging Bionics Foundation | $28,575 | 6 | 1% |
| Bmi Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fred Lewis Foundation for Youth Handball | $20,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Aspen Santa Fe Ballet | $12,125 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Arizona Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($455k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Today Is a Good Day Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 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
How this is measured
About Today Is a Good Day Foundation
- How much does Today Is a Good Day Foundation give?
- Today Is a Good Day Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $202,574 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Today Is a Good Day Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Arts & Culture (25%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Today Is a Good Day Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National Brain Tumor Society Inc ($524k), The Uli Foundation ($64k), Theatre Aspen ($58k).
- Does Today Is a Good Day Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Today Is a Good 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 Today Is a Good Day Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Aspen Community Foundation, Donald Pitt Family Foundation.
- Where is Today Is a Good Day Foundation based?
- Today Is a Good Day Foundation is based in AZ.
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