California · Nonprofit
CHALLENGE DAY FUND
CHALLENGE DAY FUND (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($416,435). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $-443360
What Challenge Day Fund does
Mission
Historically, Challenge Day was formed to help people learn to connect through powerful, life-changing programs in their schools, businesses, communities and families. Using highly interactive and energetic activities, Challenge Days programs provide teens and adults with tools to break down the walls of separation and isolation and replace them with compassion. Challenge Day inspires people to live, study and work in an environment of acceptance, love and respect. Challenge Day stands for a world where everyone feels safe, loved and celebrated. Challenge Day Fund was formed to fundraise for the delivery of Challenge Day for schools in need, which may include schools with high free-and-reduced-lunch rates.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
During this fiscal year, the Challenge Day Fund proudly supported seventeen programs delivered by Toward the Real, LLC dba Challenge Day. These impactful programs reached eleven schools across the United States, positively influencing the lives of more than 2,500 teenagers.Challenge Day programs are immersive, experiential workshops designed to transform school and community climates. Through engaging and emotionally resonant activities, these programs aim to: Foster empathy and cross-cultural understanding, Strengthen peer and adult relationships, Reduce bullying and social isolation, and Positively influence student achievement and overall well-being.Challenge Day's innovative approach has received national recognition. The program has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, spotlighted in Tom Brokaws 2010 documentary Bridging the Divide, and served as the foundation for the MTV reality series If You Really Knew Me, which aired for 12 episodes.Since its inception in 1987 by founders Yvonne and Rich Dutra-St. John, Challenge Day has reached over one million students in more than 2,200 schools worldwide. The program serves youth across all gender identities, races, ethnicities,…
$116,951 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $116,951.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $586k to $59k (−90%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of CHALLENGE DAY FUND’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 7 funders, grant income fell $210k → $69k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of CHALLENGE DAY FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CHALLENGE DAY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CHALLENGE DAY FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 21% · 2020 55% · 2021 32% · 2022 46% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of CHALLENGE DAY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of CHALLENGE DAY FUND's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $474k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $684k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHALLENGE DAY FUND runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CHALLENGE DAY FUND
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHALLENGE DAY FUND: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHALLENGE DAY FUND?
- CHALLENGE DAY FUND (California) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,158,300 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($416,435). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHALLENGE DAY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,158,300 in grants to CHALLENGE DAY FUND, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGE DAY FUND?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $416,435 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHALLENGE DAY FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing