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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’17
23
’18
43
’19
16
’20
17
’21
23
’22
23
’23
12
’24
4
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MPublic Safety & Disaster$7.6MEmployment$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.0MYouth Development$752kInternational$497kEducation$445kHealth$325kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $379k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $434k
$48,333
Median grant
7
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION$200,000
AMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING EDUCATION FOUNDATION$125,000
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$108,800
BLACK LAB MAN FOUNDATION$48,333
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$48,333
MALE MOGUL INITIATIVE INC$48,333
ALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS$48,333
GREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT$48,333
URBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION$48,333
BALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION$39,500
SURVIVOR ALLIANCE$16,667
OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC$16,667
LIFE PROJECT 4 YOUTH$16,667
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $715k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $48k → 14%UNTOURS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%International Sanctuary: $20k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $48k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $48k → 14%American National Red Cross: $60k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $175k → 14%Aspire of Illinois: $35k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $150k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 14%American National Red Cross: $30k → 14%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION: $25k → 14%LEAP Innovations: $10k → 14%SALT & LIGHT: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
DE
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 44 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
58

Total granted

$11M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+29%

Still filing today

95%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TA
    THE AHLA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $560k · revenue +158%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2018–2025 · $450k · revenue +9%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +44%
  • GG
    Global Giving (Hurricane Maria)
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • GS
    Georgia State U Hyatt Regency Atlanta schshp
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
2
American Water Works Association

To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.

Public Benefit
3
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
4
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
7
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
10
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
11
Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce

The chicagoland chamber of commerce combines the power of people, with our legacy of leadership and business advocacy, to drive a dynamic economy. we focus on delivering value for our members, making chicagoland a world-class place to live…

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12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

90 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 90 of the 111 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
90/90
Grantees still filing
58/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $9,750,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINASAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $466,722 · Philanthropy+6 more: $300,000 · PhilanthropyVARIOUS CO HYATT HOTELS FOUNDATION: $6,756,500 · OtherVARIOUS CO HYATT HOTELS FOUNDATIONCITY YEAR INC: $315,000 · Other+59 more: $2,085,589 · Other+59 moreTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $560,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $60,000 · EducationYouth Guidance: $60,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $60,000 · EducationAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $45,000 · EducationBALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $39,500 · Education+2 more: $25,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $275,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 · InternationalEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $119,251 · InternationalSURVIVOR ALLIANCE: $58,334 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES: $46,179 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $40,000 · International+7 more: $117,676 · InternationalSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $385,000 · EmploymentTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · EmploymentLIFE PROJECT 4 YOUTH INC: $113,167 · EmploymentSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $45,000 · EmploymentThe Cara Program: $35,000 · EmploymentCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $30,000 · Employment+2 more: $37,500 · EmploymentAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450,000 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $144,999 · Human ServicesASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 · Human ServicesUNTOURS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $25,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesURBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION: $144,999 · Community ImprovementALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $144,999 · Community ImprovementWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$10,516,722Other$9,157,089Education$849,500International$806,440Employment$805,667Human Services$719,999Community Improvement$329,998

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $9,750,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $560,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $466,722 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSKILLS FOR CHICAGO: $385,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $315,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHICAGO COUNCIL ON GLOBAL AFFAIRS: $275,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMERCIAL CLUB FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBlack Man Lab Foundation: $144,999 over 3y, 35% of budgetURBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION: $144,999 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGREATER WEST TOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT: $144,999 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetALLIES FOR COMMUNITY BUSINESS INC: $144,999 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $144,999 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT: $119,251 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLIFE PROJECT 4 YOUTH INC: $113,167 over 3y, 12% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALE MOGUL INITIATIVE INC NFP: $96,666 over 2y, 11% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Guidance: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSURVIVOR ALLIANCE: $58,334 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES: $46,179 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHICAGO POLICE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIP INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL MATTERS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $41,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBALI CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 1y, 47% of budgetThe Cara Program: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF ILLINOIS: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $33,334 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $31,592 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO URBAN LEAGUE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD BUSINESS CHICAGO: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLE OF LIBERTY COUNCIL 525 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $26,082 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Polk Bros Foundation …The Chicago Community…Lloyd a Fry FoundationThe Pritzker Pucker F…Fifth Third Chicagola…Robert R McCormick Fo…Arie and Ida Crown Me…Northwestern Memorial…The Coleman Foundatio…Northwestern Memorial…Charities Aid Foundat…John D and Catherine …
Polk Bros Foundation IncIL21.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Hyatt Hotels Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hyatt Hotels Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Hyatt Hotels Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hyatt Hotels 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 111 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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