Missouri · Private foundation
Hayden Freedom 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $497,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 27
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Hayden Freedom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $1.2M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $1.6M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.9M | 44% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.7M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $519k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieving Freedom Inc | $2,762,741 | 5 | 32% |
| Missouri State Fair Foundation | $750,583 | 6 | 27% |
| Whiskey Ridge Rescue | $440,000 | 6 | 92% |
| Open Door Service Center Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 8% |
| American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| America's Mighty Warriors | $150,226 | 6 | 3% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 11% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $67,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Word of Life Church Inc | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieving Freedom Inc | $2,762,741 | 5 | 32% |
| Missouri State Fair Foundation | $750,583 | 6 | 27% |
| Whiskey Ridge Rescue | $440,000 | 6 | 92% |
| Open Door Service Center Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 8% |
| American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation | $155,000 | 5 | 1% |
| America's Mighty Warriors | $150,226 | 6 | 3% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Sacred Heart Foundation | $75,000 | 3 | 11% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $67,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Word of Life Church Inc | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels of Sedalia | $47,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Coens Way | $30,000 | 3 | 40% |
| Cactus | $6,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Missouri 4-H Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| NRA Special Contribution Fund | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Warrior Guiding Warriors | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Human Services Inc | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hayden Freedom Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Edward Jones Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Hayden Freedom Foundation
- How much does Hayden Freedom Foundation give?
- Hayden Freedom Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $1,166,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Hayden Freedom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (41%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Hayden Freedom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Retrieving Freedom Inc ($2.8M), Missouri State Fair Foundation ($751k), Whiskey Ridge Rescue ($440k).
- Does Hayden Freedom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hayden Freedom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Hayden Freedom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Edward Jones Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, Network for Good.
- Where is Hayden Freedom Foundation based?
- Hayden Freedom Foundation is based in MO.
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