· Private foundation
The Jason Hayes Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA | $8,485 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $5,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YOUTH AT RISK PATHWAYS | $5,000 |
| MASS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| LITERATIONS | $5,000 |
| YOUTH VILLAGES | $5,000 |
| SILVER LINING MENTORING | $5,000 |
| BOSTON CASA | $5,000 |
| WALKER INC | $5,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $4,000 |
| UTEC | $4,000 |
| ALL OUR KIDS | $4,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 14 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSILVER LINING MENTORING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +148%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +101%- LCLITERATIONS CORP6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- IHITALIAN HOME FOR KIDSone grant, 2023 · $8k
- BOBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -6%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
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.
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 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 equip those we serve with the skills to become self-sufficient productive members of their communities and society.
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.
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Worcester youth and family services empowers all people, of all ages, toward leading capable, purposeful, responsible, fulfilled lives in healthy families and communities.
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
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…
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 157 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HOWE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WSPECIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds WEDIKO CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds All Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds Compass Path Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
- 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Jason Hayes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jason Hayes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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