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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.

$879k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
32
Grants FY2024
20
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$148k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesAnimals
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving32$879k38%
FY202320$77k0%
FY202220$88k0%
FY202119$68k0%
FY202021$74k5%
FY201921$83k0%
FY201821$83k5%
FY201722$84kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$469kHealth$246kFood & Nutrition$195kAnimals$172kHousing & Shelter$94kArts & Culture$38kYouth Development$18kInternational$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $145,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Arizona Shelter Services Inc: $74,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGompers: $65,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arizona Animal Welfare League: $56,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetDurango Food Bank: $50,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetSojourner Center: $42,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetArizona Burn Foundation Inc: $39,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHospice of the Valley: $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Blind Children: $24,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $22,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Phoenix Theatre Company and Subsidiary: $22,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOne Step Beyond Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society: $18,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMcKenna Youth Foundation: $17,500 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetA New Leaf: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGabriels Angels Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCircle the City: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrambley Hedge Rabbit Rescue: $11,500 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetProject Hope - the People-To-People Health Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMotorcycle Relief Project: $7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAnnies Orphans: $6,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Aopa Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharlot Hall Historical Society of Az: $3,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLiberty Wildlife Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ellie & Les Hayt Family 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.

About The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation

How much does The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation give?
The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $878,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Health (17%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
Who are The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($145k), Central Arizona Shelter Services Inc ($74k), Gompers ($65k).
Does The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Ellie & Les Hayt Family 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 The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust.
Where is The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation based?
The Ellie & Les Hayt Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 36 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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