Connecticut · 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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $215,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Hayes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $2.2M | 2% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.7M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.5M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.6M | 8% |
| FY2020 | 55 | $1.2M | 35% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $553k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $93k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Himalayan Cataract Project Inc | $590,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Wolf Conservation Center Inc | $397,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc | $391,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Safe Passage | $387,500 | 7 | 5% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $329,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc | $280,000 | 7 | 10% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $280,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Georges Malaika Foundation Inc | $270,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Santa Fe Conservation Trust | $260,000 | 8 | 3% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $254,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hayes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About The Hayes Foundation
- How much does The Hayes Foundation give?
- The Hayes Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $2,206,025 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Hayes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), International (15%), Animals (12%).
- Who are The Hayes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Himalayan Cataract Project Inc ($590k), Wolf Conservation Center Inc ($398k), Girls Incorporated of Santa Fe Inc ($391k).
- Does The Hayes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hayes 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 Hayes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, Harris Finch Foundation % Walter Brodie Burwell Jr, Gale Family Foundation.
- Where is The Hayes Foundation based?
- The Hayes Foundation is based in CT.
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