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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.

$603k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2025
36
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
35 to 42
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$4.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Benard L Maas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPublic BenefitReligionAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving31$603k10%
FY202436$509k22%
FY202335$448k6%
FY202237$403k5%
FY202140$429k13%
FY202042$402k21%
FY201937$358k16%
FY201837$326k16%
84% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$974kRecreation & Sports$764kHealth$731kEducation$199kPhilanthropy$163kFood & Nutrition$123kHuman Services$94kAnimals$79kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benard L Maas Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $160,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $112,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBroadway Inspirational Voices Inc: $107,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetFresh Air Society: $86,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpecial Olympics Michigan Inc: $77,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOur Military Kids Inc: $72,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYad Ezra: $69,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $67,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetK9s for Warriors Inc: $57,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $56,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJarc: $53,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetForgotten Harvest Inc: $53,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTalias Legacy Inc: $52,500 over 9y, 13% of budgetThe Classical Academy of Sarasota: $48,655 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Arbor Hospice Foundation: $39,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBuilding Homes for Heroes Inc: $39,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $33,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProspect Theater Company Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetChadtough Defeat Dipg Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetInterlochen Center for the Arts: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMichigan Theater Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSos Community Services: $28,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $21,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Star Reach: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Zoological Society: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Commemorative Air Force: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHope Medical Clinic Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDaycroft Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNick's Kids Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Michigan Symphony: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMilitary Aviation Museum: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 33.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Benard L Maas Foundation

How much does Benard L Maas Foundation give?
Benard L Maas Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $603,155 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Benard L Maas Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Health (19%).
Who are Benard L Maas Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc ($160k), Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc ($113k), Broadway Inspirational Voices Inc ($108k).
Does Benard L Maas Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Benard L Maas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Benard L Maas Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, The Buhr Foundation, The Martin Family Foundation.
Where is Benard L Maas Foundation based?
Benard L Maas Foundation is based in FL.

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 76 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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