· Private foundation
Donald P and Elaine M Hayden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $245k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Rhode Island Foundation and Alumni Engagement | $250,000 |
| Roger Williams University | $250,000 |
| Community Prepatory School | $25,000 |
| Providence Animal Care and Control Center | $24,550 |
| Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue | $24,550 |
| Paws Watch | $24,550 |
| Friends of Scituate Animal Shelter | $24,550 |
| San Miguel Education Center | $20,000 |
| Pet Refuge North Kingstown Exeter Animal Protection | $16,800 |
| Rhode Island SPCA | $15,000 |
| Stand Up for Animal Inc | $15,000 |
| West Place Animal Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| Providence Promise | $10,000 |
| Friends North Smithfield Animal Shelter | $10,000 |
| Saint Teresa School | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $732k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFriends of Scituate Animal Shelter4× · 2021–2024 · $32k
- RLRI LIONS SIGHT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF N SMITHFIELD ANIMAL SHL3× · 2021–2023 · $8k
Funded once
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +1%
UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +185%
COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +95%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Education and information sharing for veterinarians and the general public through newsletters, seminars and conventions as well as rabies clinics
Companion animal welfare society inc. supports the rhode island pet owning community by providing high quality veterinary care to economically challenged individuals and families.
The ocean state animal coalition (osac) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the status and well-being of animals in rhode island.
Provide high quality, low-cost veterinary care to the pets of low-income RI residents.
The mission of friends of animals in need is to assist in providing veterinary care to financially challenged companion pet owners throughout the state of rhode island, in order to avoid the surrender, abandonment or the euthanizing of…
Animal rescue rhode island (arri) is dedicated to rescuing companion animals in need and to the humane welfare of homeless animals.
To provide shelter and placement of homeless dogs and cats.
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
To take in, care for, and adopt out unwanted or abandoned domestic animals.
To provide low cost/no cost sterilization, surgeries and medicines for free roaming cats, and pet cats owned by low-income families.
Rochester hope for pets' mission is threefold: improving the quality of life for rochester area companion animals by providing grants for veterinary care to pets whose owners are in times of need; assisting veterinary health teams with…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAWSWATCH ↗
- Who funds SCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ↗
- Who funds WEST PLACE ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PROMISE ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND LIONS SIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RIVMA COMPANION ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald P and Elaine M Hayden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald P and Elaine M Hayden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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