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DAY ONE

DAY ONE (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,288 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($646,526). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.5M
Funders on record
19
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$959k
10/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Day One does

Mission

The specific purpose of this corporation is to advise, assist and coordinate efforts of existing organizations, schools and individuals in reducing the availability and effects of alcohol and illegal drugs in pasadena and altadena. Specifically, Day One will assist existing organizations to provide healthy and positive activities for youth; assist neighborhood organizations to combat drug abuse in their neighborhoods; assist public and private schools, organizations and employers to educate their students, members and employees in preventing drug and alcohol abuse and seeking help if needed; and determine the communities' needs for treatment of drug and alcohol abuse, the availability of such treatment and help people get the treatment they need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sapc (substance abuse prevention center program):Day One's drug and alcohol prevention programs are aimed at improving community conditions and environments. Environmental approaches to positively influence individual decision-making utilize four strategies: media messages, access and availability, policy and enforcement, and social norms.policy changes can assist in shifting community attitudes and behaviors toward alcohol and other drugs. The impact of now largely self-enforcing smoke-free policies over the past two decades on perceptions of and actual use of tobacco in california is an excellent example of the nexus between social norms and public health policy. Total number of clients sereved for the fiscal year is 43,561.

    $2,708,137 spent
    81% of program spending
  2. Tobacco program:reducing youth access to alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco by addressing the availability and accessibility of alcohol and other drugs through environmental efforts that change policies, ordinances, and practices that facilitate drug use. Total number of clients served during the fiscal year is 14,631.

    $368,176 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Environmental prevention:Day One received federal funding under the inflation reduction act (ira) to develop and implement green infrastructure, clean water infrastructure, transportation options for preventing air pollution, energy efficient and healthy housing and buildings, and pollution management and reduction strategies for disadvantaged communities in the san gabriel valley. Activities included planting trees in parkways and public places, greening schoolyards with composting, rain gardens, and native plants, promoting electric family and cargo bike use and bicycle repair stations, installing solar panels and induction stoves in homes, installing water refill stations, and building rain gardens and a multi-benefit stormwater capture system.the estimated total number of clients served between november 2024 and may 2025 is about 3,000.

    $275,187 spent
    8% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,351,500.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($297k)2018 Revenue 90 ($1.3M) Expenses 107 ($1.4M) Net assets 63 ($188k)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.6M) Expenses 116 ($1.5M) Net assets 116 ($345k)2020 Revenue 155 ($2.3M) Expenses 155 ($2.1M) Net assets 193 ($572k)2022 Revenue 178 ($2.6M) Expenses 191 ($2.6M) Net assets 229 ($681k)2023 Revenue 167 ($2.5M) Expenses 199 ($2.7M) Net assets 165 ($490k)2024 Revenue 165 ($2.4M) Expenses 176 ($2.4M) Net assets 197 ($584k)2025 Revenue 303 ($4.5M) Expenses 313 ($4.2M) Net assets 323 ($959k)
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Revenue (303)Expenses (313)Net assets (323)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $453k to $937k (+107%).

$367k
$289k
$453k
$937k
$847k
$1.0M
$663k
$1.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 82% · 2018 83% · 2019 82% · 2020 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 81% · 2024 67% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$142k
’17
−$109k
’18
$76k
’19
$227k
’20
$79k
’22
−$191k
’23
$94k
’24
$302k
’25
2.2
months of
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.

Chief executive

Christy Zamani

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1110997767
Joined·+2+1+2·+1+0+1
No longer listed·322·110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10k → $36k.

6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 DAY ONE’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

DAY ONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

74% 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 DAY ONE.

42%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 57% · 2021 91% · 2022 79% · 2023 58% — diversifying over time.

“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

43% of DAY ONE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

65% of DAY ONE'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 $531k that is directly attributable, 94% of it comes from California funders.

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CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $999k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding DAY ONE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.7M on record.

Federal$21.7M
grants $21.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$20.5M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like DAY ONE

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 15%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAY ONE: 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 DAY ONE?
DAY ONE (California) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,529,288 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($646,526). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DAY ONE have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,529,288 in grants to DAY ONE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DAY ONE?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $646,526 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DAY ONE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing