California · Private foundation
Fred Maytag Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $7.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2024
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Fred Maytag Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 21 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Fred Maytag Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 45 organizations, $7M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,995,637
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 77
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Fred Maytag Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $442k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $7.0M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $4.1M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $2.8M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 66 | $7.7M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $2.9M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 75 | $12M | 24% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $5.7M | 21% |
| FY2017 | 77 | $4.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save the Redwoods League | $14,130,027 | 8 | 14% |
| Central College | $3,283,922 | 9 | 4% |
| Wesley Retirement Services Inc | $2,999,426 | 8 | 3% |
| Newton Young Mens Christian Association | $1,995,637 | 1 | 36% |
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $1,499,503 | 1 | 50% |
| Community Music Center | $996,699 | 1 | 12% |
| Free to Choose Network Inc | $901,439 | 6 | 9% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Friends of Craft Inc | $595,640 | 3 | 13% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa | $586,137 | 7 | 14% |
Show all 100 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fred Maytag Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 93 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: EMC Insurance Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Ita Group Foundation · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust
How this is measured
About Fred Maytag Family Foundation
- How much does Fred Maytag Family Foundation give?
- Fred Maytag Family Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $7,164,231 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fred Maytag Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (43%), Human Services (10%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Fred Maytag Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Save the Redwoods League ($14M), Central College ($3.3M), Wesley Retirement Services Inc ($3.0M).
- Does Fred Maytag Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred Maytag Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fred Maytag Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include EMC Insurance Foundation, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc.
- Where is Fred Maytag Family Foundation based?
- Fred Maytag Family Foundation is based in CA.
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