· Private foundation
The Hayes 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $630k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC | $215,000 |
| GIRLS INC SANTA FE | $145,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $115,000 |
| MISSION BLUE | $100,000 |
| SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST | $85,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $75,000 |
| WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER | $75,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $75,000 |
| NEW YORK MARINE RESCUE CENTER | $70,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $70,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $60,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $60,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $60,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $526k) 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 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 +31% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $590k · revenue +213%- WCWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +102%
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $391k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- TOTREE OF LIFE FOR ANIMALS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- MSMARINE SKILLS INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2018 · $21k
- HLHAMDEN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -51%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 91 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 HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds PARK & RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF SAG HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Guilford Land Conservation Trust 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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Harris Finch Foundation % Walter Brodie Burwell Jr · Gale Family Foundation · Jonathan & Kathleen Altman Fndtn · The Frost Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Seattle Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Hayes 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
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.