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William Z Hayes Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$31k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2026
4
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$12,600
Organizations funded a year
4 to 7
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$656k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations William Z Hayes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving4$31k0%
FY20254$28k0%
FY20244$28k0%
FY20234$33k0%
FY20224$28k0%
FY20216$21k0%
FY20206$28k0%
FY20197$37k14%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$98kReligion$98kInternational$47kHealth$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Baylor University$95,00090%
First Baptist Church$77,3188n/a
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$15,67790%
Community Baptist Church$7,0534n/a

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to William Z Hayes Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About William Z Hayes Foundation

How much does William Z Hayes Foundation give?
William Z Hayes Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $31,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does William Z Hayes Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (37%), International (18%).
Who are William Z Hayes Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Baylor University ($95k), First Baptist Church ($77k), Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children ($16k).
Does William Z Hayes Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does William Z Hayes Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is William Z Hayes Foundation based?
William Z Hayes Foundation is based in TX.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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