· Private foundation
Irving May and Edith H May Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $2,000 |
| SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| VCU - MASSEY CANCER CENTER - MASSEY'S MAGICAL TOUCH SALON | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE GREATER CHARLOTTE | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION BON AIR POST 354 | $1,200 |
| SOUTH EAST CORGI RESCUE | $1,200 |
| TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CADILLAC AREA HONOR GUARD | $1,000 |
| FIELD INSTITUTE OF TACOS | $1,000 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -11% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +24%- SCSOUTHEAST CORGI RESCUE INCORPORATED7× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +45%
TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- DTDUNCAN TREE VENTURES INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -82%
- GMGRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +1%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATIO OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Summit assistance dogs is a nonprofit organization that creates life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
The organization's mission is to transform the lives of veterans by helping them save an at risk shelter dog or cat, and to end all animal homelessness in the us and enrich the lives of men and women who serve, and have served our country.…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To transform lives and strengthen communities through partnerships with custom trained working dogs.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
To prevent the euthanasia of adoptable pets and support animal welfare groups to this end.
Dedicated to improving the lives of people impacted by diabetes through research, education and care.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST CORGI RESCUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Companions for Heroes ↗
- Who funds SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc ↗
- Who funds CORGIAID INC ↗
- Who funds THE JARED BOX PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION ↗
- Who funds PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME ASSOCIATION (USA) ↗
- Who funds DUNCAN TREE VENTURES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Field Institute of Taos ↗
- Who funds GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation of Shalom Park ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irving May and Edith H May Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irving May and Edith H May Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
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