· Private foundation
The Ellie & Les Hayt 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $550k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $75,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| MY BORDER COLLIE BRAIN | $75,000 |
| ST MARYS FOOD BANK | $75,000 |
| CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| DURANGO FOOD BANK | $50,000 |
| GOMPERS HABILITATION CENTER | $40,000 |
| ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE | $40,000 |
| PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY | $25,000 |
| ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ONE STEP BEYOND | $20,000 |
| SOJOURNER CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k 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
- SMST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $145k · revenue +58%
- CACENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +72%
- GGOMPERS8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +6%
Funded once
PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +85%- LWLiberty Wildlife Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +126%
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 arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
To provide immediate financial assistance to families of public safety officers and firefighters who are seriously injured or killed in the line of duty, and to provide resources to enhance their safety and welfare.
Providing quality, affordable supportive housing for persons with behavioral health needs in maricopa county.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Improving health, healing people.
Honorhealth's mission is to improve the health and well-being of those we serve.
Foster360 equips former clients of the foster care system to break the cycle of homelessness and abuse.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Valley and the most unlike its peers is Annies Orphans. 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 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 36 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 ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ARIZONA SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GOMPERS ↗
- Who funds THE ARIZONA ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DURANGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA BURN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds ONE STEP BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Humane Society ↗
- Who funds MCKENNA YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A NEW LEAF ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE THE CITY ↗
- Who funds BRAMBLEY HEDGE RABBIT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Motorcycle Relief Project ↗
- Who funds ANNIES ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds PACKAGES FROM HOME ↗
- Who funds Rosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARLOT HALL HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AZ ↗
- Who funds Liberty Wildlife Inc ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · BHHS Legacy Foundation · The Foundation for Community and Health Advancement · Margaret T Morris Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Kemper & Ethel Marley Fdn · Burton Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix
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 The Ellie & Les Hayt 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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