· Private foundation
Barbara Hayes Family 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 $10k17 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PARISH BREWSTER | $32,685 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| JF&CS | $6,500 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| FIRST PARISH BREWSTER | $3,000 |
| CAPE REP THEATRE | $3,000 |
| BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF DANA FARBER | $1,500 |
| FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD | $1,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CAPE COD | $1,500 |
| BREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| CAPE COD NEEDY FUND | $1,500 |
| BREWSTER PONDS COALITION | $1,500 |
| CAPE ABILITIES | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +28% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- BCBREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +105%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +99%- BNBERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +173%
Funded once
- CCCAPE COD REPERATORY THEATREone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CCCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -14%
- FOFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +28%
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.
To encourage and assist in the acquisition, preservation and management of open space on cape cod
To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment
Conservation and preservation of land.
Preservation of open space
The organization represents 14 conservation districts. it is committed to build on partnerships with the state and federal government to protect and conserve the commonwealth's natural resources.
The orleans conservation trust protects and restores natural lands- for people and wildlife, the health of our waters, and the character of our community. a private nonprofit organization, the trust acquires and manages land to enhance…
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Brewster Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 22 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 BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BREWSTER PONDS COALITION ↗
- Who funds BREWSTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Barbara Hayes Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Brewster Conservation Trust — 8% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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.