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The Hynes Foundation Inc

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.

$278k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$4.1MHealth$34kArts & Culture$26kRecreation & Sports$21kReligion$14kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$3kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $231k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARDINAL AND GOLD FUND INC$119,615
IONA UNIVERSITY$57,500
ACADEMY OF MOUNT SAINT URSULA$54,000
CALVARY HOSPITAL$10,360
GREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY$8,000
THE WINGED FOOT FOUNDATION$6,500
CARDINAL HAYES HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
ST MICHAELS CHURCH$3,000
CATSKILL FLY FISHING CENTER$3,000
CALVARY HOSPITAL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE WALLACE CENTER$1,000
MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP$1,000
JL CARES$1,000
IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%SOUTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT AGENCY ON AGING: $300 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
VA
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 11 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$4.2M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+303%

Still filing today

73%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • IU
    IONA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +23%
  • CA
    CARDINAL AND GOLD FUND INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +11%
  • GC
    GREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • OO
    ORDER OF MALTA AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AA
    ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -7%
  • SP
    ST PATRICK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +303%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Irish American Cultural Society of Stamford Saint Patricks Day Parade
Arts & Culture
2
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
3
Northeast Greenwich Association Incorporated

The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…

Community Improvement
4
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

5
Winchester Historical Society
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
8
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
9
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
10
The Greenwich Hospital Endowment Fund Inc

Supporting organization of greenwich hospital

Health
11
Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York

The association actively supports the preservation and promotion of all aspects of irish culture and tradition. the fostering and advancement of the irish language and traditional dancing, music, song and other aspects of irish culture are…

Arts & Culture
12
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal and Gold Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Patrick Foundation. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IONA UNIVERSITY — $3,632,857 · EducationIONA UNIVERSITYCARDINAL AND GOLD FUND INC — $163,115 · Education+2 more — $24,980 · EducationACADEMY OF MOUNT SAINT URSULA — $246,300 · OtherCARDINAL HAYES HIGH SCHOOL — $42,100 · Other+9 more — $24,500 · OtherGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $21,000 · HealthCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $12,860 · HealthGREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $20,250 · Arts & CultureST PATRICK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCATSKILL FLY FISHING CENTER INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,000 · InternationalFriends of the Wallace Center Inc — $1,500 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC — $300 · Human Services
Education$3,820,952Other$312,900Health$33,860Arts & Culture$26,250Recreation & Sports$3,000International$2,000Community Improvement$1,500Human Services$300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $3,632,857 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCARDINAL AND GOLD FUND INC — $163,115 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL — $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY INC — $20,250 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWINGED FOOT FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 3y, 64% of budgetCALVARY HOSPITAL INC — $12,860 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION — $8,480 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Wallace Center Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 IONA UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CARDINAL AND GOLD FUND INC
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL
  • Who funds GREENWICH CHORAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds WINGED FOOT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CALVARY HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ST PATRICK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CATSKILL FLY FISHING CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC
  • Who funds Friends of the Wallace Center Inc
  • Who funds GREENWICH ARTS COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING 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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA6.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hynes Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Southwestern Ct Agency On Aging Inc44% of income from government
  • Greenwich Arts Council Inc1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hynes Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hynes Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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