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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 FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$2.4MInternational$1.6MAnimals$1.3MEducation$1.2MArts & Culture$945kFood & Nutrition$595kPhilanthropy$470kHealth$428kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $630k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.6M
$30,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%PROJECT OF EASTON: $2k → 11%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $40k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $40k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $40k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $40k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $25k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $5k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $2k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $40k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $40k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $30k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $15k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $50k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
WV
VA
NM
NC
DC
LA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 73 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
14

Total granted

$10M
$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+31%

Still filing today

70%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $590k · revenue +213%
  • WC
    WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $398k · revenue +102%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $391k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • TO
    TREE OF LIFE FOR ANIMALS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • MS
    MARINE SKILLS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2018 · $21k
  • HL
    HAMDEN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
4
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
5
University of New Haven

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…

Education
6
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
American Gas Association

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…

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10
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
American Foreign Service Association

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; 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.
04the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
41/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOWDOIN COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND: $444,500 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGE ALUMNI FUNDCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $329,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $237,000 · OtherHOTCHKISS LIBRARY: $211,000 · OtherNEW YORK MARINE RESCUE CENTER: $207,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $204,000 · OtherALDEA CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $180,000 · OtherMISSION BLUE: $170,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $280,000 · OtherFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCPARK & RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF SAG HARBOR INC: $195,000 · Other+49 more: $2,246,880 · Other+49 moreHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $590,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARACT PR…Safe Passage: $387,500 · InternationalSafe PassageGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 · InternationalGEORGES MALAIKA FOUND…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $242,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIE…International Rescue Committee INC: $192,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue …COMMON HOPE: $190,000 · InternationalCOMMON HOPEWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $130,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN…+3 more: $27,500 · InternationalSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $260,000 · EnvironmentSANTA FE CONSERV…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $254,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE F…SAVE THE SOUND: $250,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDAppalachian Mountain Club: $230,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Moun…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $228,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCE…Maine Island Trail Association: $176,500 · EnvironmentMaine Island Tra…Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentGuilford Land Co…+1 more: $50,000 · EnvironmentWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $397,500 · AnimalsWOLF CONSE…Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $280,000 · AnimalsEvelyn Ale…INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $200,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIO…NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $66,500 · AnimalsNORTH SHOR…THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $192,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $148,000 · Human Services+1 more: $16,000 · Human ServicesSITE SANTA FE: $125,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $101,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE COLLEGE CIRCLE: $82,500 · Arts & CultureGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $80,000 · Arts & CultureART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND: $57,500 · Arts & CultureGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC: $391,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,704,380International$2,029,000Environment$1,548,500Animals$944,000Human Services$526,000Arts & Culture$446,000Youth Development$391,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $590,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $397,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SANTA FE INC: $391,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetSafe Passage: $387,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $329,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc: $280,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $280,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGES MALAIKA FOUNDATION INC: $270,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetSANTA FE CONSERVATION TRUST: $260,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $254,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $250,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $242,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $237,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $230,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $228,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $204,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST: $200,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetPARK & RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF SAG HARBOR INC: $195,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $192,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $192,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON HOPE: $190,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $176,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $148,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $143,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $125,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSylvia Earle AllianceMission Blue: $102,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetANDEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 68% of budgetCENTENARY EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION LLC: $92,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: $88,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetMAINE COLLEGE CIRCLE: $82,500 over 7y, 19% of budgetGEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM: $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKWATER SAILING CENTER INC: $75,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $66,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART LEAGUE OF LONG ISLAND: $57,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $35,500 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWATER FOR PEOPLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY 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 THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee 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 Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANDEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…Harris Finch Foundati…Gale Family FoundationJonathan & Kathleen A…The Frost FoundationThe Community Foundat…Seattle FoundationNational Philanthropi…Communities Foundatio…Aetna Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hayes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hayes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home