Illinois · Private foundation
Hyatt Hotels 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.
- $813k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 39%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Hyatt Hotels Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Hyatt Hotels Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $813k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $48,333
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 39% of the organizations Hyatt Hotels Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $704k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $893k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $758k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $6.7M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $1.0M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $517k | 78% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $720k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ahla Foundation | $560,000 | 6 | 4% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $450,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Skills for Chicago | $385,000 | 5 | 3% |
| City Year Inc | $315,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Commercial Club Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Urban Alliance Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Black Man Lab Foundation | $144,999 | 3 | 35% |
| Urban Juncture Foundation | $144,999 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hyatt Hotels Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 79 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Pritzker Pucker Family Foundation · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Northwestern Memorial HealthCare Group · Charities Aid Foundation America · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
How this is measured
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About Hyatt Hotels Foundation
- How much does Hyatt Hotels Foundation give?
- Hyatt Hotels Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $813,299 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Hyatt Hotels Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Public Safety & Disaster (33%), Employment (6%).
- Who are Hyatt Hotels Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ahla Foundation ($560k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($450k), Skills for Chicago ($385k).
- Does Hyatt Hotels Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 39% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hyatt Hotels 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 Hyatt Hotels Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Polk Bros Foundation Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Lloyd a Fry Foundation.
- Where is Hyatt Hotels Foundation based?
- Hyatt Hotels Foundation is based in IL.
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