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Jean Hay Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Jean Hay Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$1k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$13kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$8kHealth$7kReligion$4kEnvironment$1kPublic Safety & Disaster$500
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$105k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,000
NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM$1,000
STAR ISLAND CORP$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$500
VIVACE MUSIC FOUNDATION$250
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOSPICE OF THE VALLLEY: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
AZ
DC
HI
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 7 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$38k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +98%
  • TS
    The Star Island Corporation
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TA
    TAIKO ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • HO
    Hospice of the Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +27%
  • NN
    NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -53%
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
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
2
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Asante

Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.

Health
5
World Molecular Imaging Society

The world molecular imaging society (wmis) is an international scientific educational organization dedicated to the understanding of biology and medicine through multimodal in vivo imaging of cellular and molecular events involved in…

Health
6
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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7
Willamette Vital Health

We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…

Human Services
8
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
10
Foundation for Women's Cancer

To support and empower all affected by gynecologic cancers through education, research, and public awareness.

Health
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Women's Foodservice Forum

Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Taiko Arts Center. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA…MADRE INC: $2,500 · InternationalMADRE INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · InternationalNEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEU…TAIKO ARTS CENTER: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTAIKO ARTS CENTER+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS SERV COM: $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERV…BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ART: $3,000 · OtherBOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE…BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,000 · OtherBOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE…The Star Island Corporation: $7,500 · Community ImprovementThe Star Island Corp…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…Hospice of the Valley: $1,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 · Environment
International$10,500Arts & Culture$8,750Other$8,000Community Improvement$7,500Health$5,500Human Services$1,000Environment$1,000

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 budgetNEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Star Island Corporation: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMADRE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAIKO ARTS CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVivace Music Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Quilt Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 Jean Hay Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Jean Hay Charitable 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 13 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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