· Private foundation
Benard L Maas Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMARACK CAMPS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FIDF | $50,000 |
| ENCORE THEATER | $50,000 |
| CLASIC ACADEMY OF SARASOTA | $48,655 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC PHILANTHROPY | $34,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,000 |
| FIDF | $25,000 |
| TUNNEL 2 TOWERS | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| YAD EZRA | $15,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $15,000 |
| K 9'S FOR WARRIORS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SAMARITIANS PURSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $198k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% 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.
59 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 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, 85% 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $160k · revenue +15%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $113k · revenue +2%
- BIBroadway Inspirational Voices Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $108k · revenue +341%
Funded once
- UOU OF M SCHOOL OF MUSICAL THEATERone grant, 2018 · $70k
- NSNORTH STAR REACHone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -65%
- UTUM TALPAZ FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Military Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 76 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Broadway Inspirational Voices Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds YAD EZRA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds JARC ↗
- Who funds Talias Legacy Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds The Arbor Hospice Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOS COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · The Buhr Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Benard L Maas 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors 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.