· Private foundation
The Warren J and Marylou Hayford Family 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
64% of The Warren J and Marylou Hayford Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 32 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Warren J and Marylou Hayford Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 37 organizations, $344k. 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE WARREN J AND MARYLOU HAYFORD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k100 grants · $279k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARTHA CATHOLIC CHURC CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| MARINER SANOS CHAPEL | $10,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF MARTIN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GUIDING EVES FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MARV CRANE CENTER | $7,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $7,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $7,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| BLIND CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER | $6,300 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE | $6,000 |
| HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2022, 14 since wound down; 61 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
Cornell University4× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +46%- KCKenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +28%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM4× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $16k
- SHSACRED HEART ACADEMY OF HAMDENone grant, 2021 · $14k
- NBNATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +55%
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.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
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…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Max Finney Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 167 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 GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Kenneth C Griffin Museum of Science and Industry ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds SHEDD AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PORTICO HEALTHNET ↗
- Who funds Cana Family Institute ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - MARTIN / ST LUCIE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY MISSIONS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Strake Foundation · The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · Scanlan Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Mariner Sands Charity Week Inc · United Way of Martin County Inc · The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company
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 Warren J and Marylou Hayford Family 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.
- The Huub Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Aspire Health Partners Inc — 2% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank 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.
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