Texas · Nonprofit
HAY Center Foundation
HAY Center Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,535,540 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,147,040). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $488k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What HAY Center Foundation does
Mission
Empowering current and former foster youth to be successful, productive adults through training, mentorship, and support in housing, education, employment, and personal achievement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The HAY Center Foundation's support of the Education and Workforce programs fills the gaps where public contracts do not allow funding. Youth receive support (books and fees, tuition, training, uniforms) to work towards and accomplish their education and employment goals. Education: College Tours allow rising juniors/seniors to explore their post-secondary education options and allows for advanced planning ahead of graduation. College Bound Experience offers a simulated first-day-of-college interactive event for youth heading off to college as well as provides as volunteer opportunity for youth to build their resumes. Continued on Schedule OWorkforce: The HAY Center hosts a Summer Jobs Program, giving youth ages 16 through 20 the opportunity to participate in first-time employment and develop their soft skills with the support of a workforce team providing onsite case management. Job training and viable employment options are necessary for a youth's successful transition to independence. The Workforce Team works to identify and develop sustainable entry-level employment opportunities. Financial Management workshops are provided to all youth participating in The HAY Center's…
$79,094 spentof which $37,004 as grants31% of program spendingThe HAY Center Coaching Programs include Transition and Academic Coaching. The Transition Coaching program pairs trained volunteers with youth who are preparing to "age out" of the foster care system. The coach assists youth in exploring options for education, employment, and housing. The goal of the program is for coaches to be someone outside of the system who provides support and keeps the youth connected to The HAY Center's wraparound services. Academic Coaching focuses not only on subject matter tutoring services but also teaches youth executive functioning skills including time management, impression management, organizational skill and study skills. Youth participate in individual and group tutoring sessions, which are held either in person or virtually.
$64,969 spentof which $30,396 as grants25% of program spendingThe HAY Center Housing Continuum assists youth in finding and applying for safe, stable housing options that will aid them in meeting their educational, employment, and mental health needs and goals. In addition to The HAY Center's wraparound services, the youth participating in the Housing Continuum receive housing readiness, navigation, and case management services. The goal of the program is for youth to be prepared to obtain their own housing, live independently and achieve housing stability. Continued on Schedule Oo The Bridge Housing program provides youth with a rent-free place to live while they participate in intensive case management, wraparound services, and advanced life skills training. Youth work towards obtaining employment and/or training to gain marketable job skills while learning to live independently. o Housing Options: Housing vouchers through a public/private venture between The HAY Center, the HAY Center Foundation, and local housing authorities, youth apply for housing vouchers through the local housing authorities. During the application process, the youth receive housing readiness and navigation services to ensure they locate affordable housing that fits…
$63,957 spentof which $29,922 as grants25% of program spendingYouth Engagement and Enhanced Life Skills Workshops are centered around youth voice and provides youth the opportunity to interact with the HAY Center team outside of case management services as well as interacting with volunteers while learning much needed life skills. Enhanced life skills topics include financial literacy, job readiness, parenting, meal preparation, housing and other areas identified by our youth. Annual events include the following: o Thanksgiving Grab and Go: Youth stop by The HAY Center to pick up a holiday food bag, gift card and pie that can be used for their own holiday meals. Youth enjoy lunch, snacks, and pie as they wait for their food bags to be made per their requests. This is a great time for them to visit with The HAY Center team. o Holiday Event, held in December, is an opportunity for youth and their family of choice to celebrate the holidays at this fun-filled event. It provides youth the opportunity to connect with community members outside of the foster care system. The HAY Center and team step in to ensure that our youth enjoy this special time of the year. o Prom Readiness Event helps high school students in foster care prepare for their prom…
$48,595 spentof which $22,735 as grants19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $256,615.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.8M to $5.1M (+80%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
94% of HAY Center Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Andy Drumheller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $40k → $68k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HAY Center Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HAY Center Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HAY Center Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 37% · 2019 75% · 2020 68% · 2021 50% · 2022 35% · 2023 57% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
7% of HAY Center Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of HAY Center Foundation's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
HAY Center Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like HAY Center Foundation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HAY Center Foundation?
- HAY Center Foundation (Texas) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,535,540 to it, the largest being GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,147,040). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HAY Center Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,535,540 in grants to HAY Center Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HAY Center Foundation?
- GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,147,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HAY Center Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing