The Haley Foundation
The organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting various charitable causes, with a particular focus on arts and cultural programs, education, human services, and animal welfare. Its mission emphasizes the promotion of individual and family self-sufficiency, particularly for women and children in need, as well as the alleviation of animal welfare issues. The foundation provides funding to a diverse range of organizations, including theaters, historical societies, food pantries, and community health clinics. It demonstrates a commitment to supporting less established organizations that may lack traditional funding sources, reflecting its values of community service and cultural preservation.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A small or midsize Pennsylvania nonprofit in arts/theater, animal welfare, or human services (particularly programs for women and children), seeking project or operating support and comfortable with a mailed/brief proposal and possible site visit.
Good Fit
- • Organization is based in Pennsylvania or serves PA communities.
- • Request aligns with arts/theater, animal welfare, or human services for women/children.
- • Asking for project or operating support in the small-to-midsize range (typical grants $1K–$25K, many in $1K–$7.5K).
- • Organization is less established or has limited traditional funding sources.
- • Willingness to provide a short narrative, budget, board list, tax-exempt documentation, and to host a site visit if requested.
Geography
Grantmaking is strongly state-focused: roughly four states received funding but about 79% of dollars went to Pennsylvania, indicating a primarily in‑state focus with occasional out‑of‑state awards.
Recipient Variety
The foundation funded 19 distinct recipients in the latest year and a similar count in prior years across arts, animal welfare and human services, showing a broad set of independent grantees rather than a tiny closed circle.
New Applicants
Direct evidence of new entrants appears each year (five new grantees in the latest year and seven the year before), and the foundation publishes rolling submission instructions and materials it requests, so unfamiliar applicants appear plausibly able to enter the portfolio.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
