· Private foundation
Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of NANCY ECCLES AND HOMER M HAYWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $696k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $815k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $305,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES | $260,000 |
| HAYWARD INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART | $205,000 |
| SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY | $200,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO INC | $200,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF MONTEREY CNTY | $175,000 |
| CARMEL PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FD | $135,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MONTERAY PEN | $125,000 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| WILDCARE | $100,000 |
| HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DENTISTRY 4 VETS | $85,000 |
| HARMONY AT HOME | $75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $698k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MMMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $985k · revenue +28%
- BCBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $897k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- WSWHITE STAG LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INCone grant, 2023 · $500k
- SMSECOND MUSEone grant, 2022 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $120k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Connecting nature, people, and science for a more resilient world.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County and the most unlike its peers is Wood River Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 169 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds HARTNELL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds THE SAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SALINAS REGIONAL SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROTARUN SKI CLUB ↗
- Who funds NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds WILD LOVE PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DENTISTRY 4 VETS ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds The Wave Program ↗
- Who funds HANDS TO HELP SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Health Associates ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Manitou Fund · William McCaskey Chapman and Adaline Dinsmore Chapman Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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