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Hay Foundation

Support for persons with aids and support for battered women and children.

$630k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$693kHousing & Shelter$665kInternational$450kHuman Services$382kYouth Development$261kFood & Nutrition$210kCommunity Improvement$188kHealth$135kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE THIS HORSE EQUINE RESCUE INC$375,000
LEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUND$100,000
SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE$50,000
MAMA'S KITCHEN$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$30,000
KALEIDOSCOPE CHILD FOUNDATION$15,000
THE GIFT FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $300k → 11%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 17%THE GIFT FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $250k → 11%CHARITY WATER: $66k → 17%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $150k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $100k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $75k → 11%LEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUND: $200k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $50k → 11%LEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUND: $100k → 11%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $30k → 11%OTHERS LESS THAN 5000: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 12 repeat orgs$171k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$161k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SF
    SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $955k · revenue +42%
  • LT
    LOVE THIS HORSE EQUINE RESCUE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $633k · revenue +32% · 97% of their budget
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $261k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $66k · revenue -11%
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • AH
    Apla Health & Wellnessgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +59%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cocoa Kitties

Animal rescue

Animals
2
Feeding Hungry Children International

Provide food, shelter, and medical assistance for children around the world.

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3
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
4
Lalmba Association

We engage with rural communities in africa by providing life-saving medical services, transformative education and empowerment opportunities, and support for at-risk and vulnerable populations to help build healthy, sustainable, and…

International
5
The Lake Clinic - Usa

The lake clinic is the only non-governmental organization providing access to healthcare services directly to children and adults located in very remote and underserved regions of the tonle sap lake area in cambodia.

Health
6
Coalition for the Homeless Inc

The coalition for the homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals and families. we believe that affordable housing, sufficient food and the chance to work for a living wage are…

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7
Community Animal Treatment Center

Community Animal Treatment Center (CATC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to delivering high-quality, high-volume spay and neuter (HQHVSN) services for community cats and pets, with a focus on supporting low-income…

Animals
8
Aid for Starving Children

Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.

International
9
Let Them Be Little Feline Rescue

Ltbl works to reduce euthanasia rates promote long term, responsibe pet ownership by rescuing underage at risk cats kittens and praces them into loving foster homes till adoption

Animals
10
Forafrika Usa

To provide emergency response, food security, nutrition, water and sanitation, health, education, agricultural and economic development to vulnerable communities in africa in dignified and sustainable ways.

Religion
11
Feeding Homeless Felines Foundation
Animals
12
Touch-a-Life

Touch a life seeks to rescue, renew, and restore children rescued out of trafficking in ghana, west africa. we provide long-term rehabilitative care for the children and young adults in our program, specifically by providing housing,…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Snowdon Wildlife Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $955,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCLEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUND: $450,000 · Human ServicesLEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUNDCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $66,000 · Human Services+2 more: $16,270 · Human ServicesLOVE THIS HORSE EQUINE RESCUE INC: $633,333 · AnimalsLOVE THIS HORSE EQUINE R…SNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $30,000 · AnimalsWE THE WOROLD VILLAGE IMPACT: $188,044 · OtherWE THE WOROLD…Charlotte Maxwell Clinic: $60,000 · OtherCharlotte Max…PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA …MCPAWS REGIONAL ANIMAL SHELTER: $30,000 · OtherMCPAWS REGION…Apla Health & Wellness: $25,000 · OtherApla Health &…+1 more: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $261,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…MAMA'S KITCHEN: $200,000 · Food & NutritionJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10,000 · Food & NutritionKALEIDOSCOPE CHILD FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationOCEAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 · Religion
Human Services$1,487,270Animals$663,333Other$363,044Youth Development$261,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Education$85,000Religion$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $955,000 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetLOVE THIS HORSE EQUINE RESCUE INC: $633,333 over 3y, 97% of budgetLEFT TO TELL CHARITABLE FUND: $450,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $261,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAMA'S KITCHEN: $200,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKALEIDOSCOPE CHILD FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $66,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Maxwell Clinic: $60,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetOCEAN INSTITUTE: $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSNOWDON WILDLIFE SANCTUARY: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDoors of Change: $10,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $6,270 over 4y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Hay Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hay Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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