· Private foundation
The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
66% of The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to California Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 33 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 26 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k28 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $646k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $219k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $632,257 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $387,009 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE | $339,697 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $266,163 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $95,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $72,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $52,000 |
| CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY DOMINGUEZ HILLS | $47,840 |
| THE JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES & DORA HAYNES FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $40,000 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $38,550 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $34,577 |
| ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE | $28,800 |
| THE JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES & DORA HAYNES FOUNDATION | $25,530 |
| LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
60 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2019, 19 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $646k 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
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
POMONA COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $226k · revenue +109%- CSCALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- FFFOOD FORWARD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +483%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARAone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UFUCLA FOWLER MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
72 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 130 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Achievement Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN RANDOLPH HAYNES AND DORA HAYNES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The California Endowment · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Joseph Drown 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 John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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