· Private foundation
The Jason Hayes Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| LITERATIONS | $5,000 |
| MASS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| SILVER LINING MENTORING | $5,000 |
| WALKER INC | $5,000 |
| BOSTON CASA | $5,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS | $5,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $5,000 |
| COMPASS PATH INC | $4,800 |
| RAW ARTWORKS | $4,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| UTEC INC | $4,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- SLSILVER LINING MENTORING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +148%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +101%- TWTHE WILY NETWORK6× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IHITALIAN HOME FOR KIDSone grant, 2023 · $8k
- CFCENTER FOR TRAUMA AND EMBODIMENT AT JRIone grant, 2023 · $4k
- YNY2Y NETWORK INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -14%
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.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
The greater lowell family ymca's mission is to strengthen our community by supporting youth development, healthy living and social responsibility for all through programs influenced by our core values of caring, honesty, respect and…
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
The organization's missions is to provide quality child care to children of teachers in the brookline, ma school system and others as per qualification procedures.
Youth Development
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
To equip those we serve with the skills to become self-sufficient productive members of their communities and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp to Belong. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 143 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 SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOWE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WEDIKO CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds All Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds Compass Path Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
- Who funds Joyweavers Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRAUMA INSTITUTE & CHILD TRAUMA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Springfield 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Priscilla Alden Uwo · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Clipper Ship Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation 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 Jason 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Camp Starfish Inc — 18% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Howe Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trauma Institute & Child Trauma Institute Inc — 0% 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.