· Private foundation
Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k68 grants · $276k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEVEREUX FOUNDATION | $78,744 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE SPCA | $38,000 |
| LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $11,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ALAMEDA EMERGENCY FOOD | $9,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| LYRIC | $8,500 |
| BLUE RIDGE FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| UFW FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $7,000 |
| HOMELESS YOUTH ALLIANCE INC | $7,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES | $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 (FY20–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% 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 +16% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 10 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- ASALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +6%
- LSLarkin Street Youth Services6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +7%
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue 0%
- LYLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION AND INFORMATIOone grant, 2022 · $17k
- CYCultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americasone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue -72%
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.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives and the most unlike its peers is National Coalition of 100 Black Women. 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 37 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 — 2% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 150 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 The Devereux Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Alameda Emergency Food DBA Alameda Food Bank ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Alliance ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Central City Hospitality House ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BORDER ANGELS ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Cultura y Arte Nativa De Las Americas ↗
- Who funds SAVE MOUNT DIABLO ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Bicycle Coalition ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT CASA 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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Genan Foundation · Caplin Foundation · Manning Family Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Charlottesville · The Charles Fund Inc · The Oak Hill Fund · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Sentara Health
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 Thomas C & Mary Ann Hays Fam Char Tr 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.