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Willametta K Day 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $185k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
- $250k+4 grants · $6.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROBERT DAY FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL (SCIENCE BUILDING) | $2,000,000 |
| CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE (ROBERT DAY SCIENCES CENTER) | $1,500,000 |
| WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (THE WILLAMETTA KECK DAY ENDOWMENT FUND | $250,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION (HOOKER CREEK RANCH ENDOWED SCHOLARSHI | $180,000 |
| LINFIELD UNIVERSITY | $80,000 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE | $75,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY (SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE) | $45,000 |
| THE SEQUOYAH EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO FOUNDATION (HOOKER CREEK RANCH ENDOWED SCHOLARSHI | $20,000 |
| PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $15,000 |
| DESIGN HISTORY FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| ANYONE CORPORATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
67 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k 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
- RDROBERT DAY FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $15M · revenue +183% · 95% of their budget
- RLROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +35%
- SCSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE5× · 2020–2024 · $355k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- THTHE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -36%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCone grant, 2022 · $45k · revenue -6%- WDWESTERN DIOCESE OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $26k
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.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Family Solutions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert Day 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 145 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 ROBERT DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds WESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE ↗
- Who funds Linfield University ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR GREAT APES INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MASON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Sequoyah Educational Center ↗
- Who funds Design History Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Nevada Reno Foundation ↗
- Who funds ANYONE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE HARRAH AUTOMOBILE FOUNDATION NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COUNCIL ON INTERNATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRUCKEE MEADOWS ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT SHAKESPEARE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds MOMS ON THE RUN ↗
- Who funds RENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDERSEN DEANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds House of Hope Mer Hooys 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: Deborah and Tj Day Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Wm Keck Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · The E L Cord Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Renown Health · The Confidence Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins 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 Willametta K 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.
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Samara Learning Center — 56% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- Bend International School Inc — 10% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
- Oregon State University 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.
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