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James and Tanya Mahood 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.

$129k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
25
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 28
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations James and Tanya Mahood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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 arriving30$127k40%
FY202425$116k36%
FY202328$124k43%
FY202223$102k48%
FY202121$139k24%
FY202018$125kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$206kFood & Nutrition$145kEnvironment$80kEducation$61kHealth$48kHuman Services$42kHousing & Shelter$35kArts & Culture$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
DC
MS
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of James and Tanya Mahood Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$69,00060%
Feeding America$57,50060%
One Tree Planted Inc$27,50030%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$25,00050%
Save The Children Federation Inc$24,00060%
The Friendship Bridge$22,00060%
Food Lifeline$20,00020%
Lifespan Research Institution$17,50041%
Westminster University$12,00040%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$12,00040%
Population Services International$10,00020%
Score$10,000223%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation$10,00010%
United States Fund for Unicef$10,00020%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$10,00020%
Preble Street$10,00020%
National Women's Health Network$10,00020%
Hj Lang Foundation$9,5004n/a
The Land Institute$9,00030%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$9,00030%
Urban Prep Academies$9,00030%
Mississippi Food Network Inc$7,50010%
New Beginnings$7,00020%
Listeners Community Radio of Utah Inc$6,50040%
Friends of the St Lawrence Church$6,50031%
Wateraid America Inc$5,00010%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$5,00010%
Grameen Foundation USA$5,00010%
Black and Missing Foundation$5,00011%
Score$5,0001n/a
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$4,00010%
New Beginnings$3,50010%
Action Against Hunger - USA$3,30010%
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah$3,00020%
Democracy Now Productions Inc$3,0001n/a
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark$1,03510%
University of Southern Maine Foundation$1,00010%
Homeless Animal Rescue Team of Maine Inc$1,0001n/a
Emergency Need Task Force of Pulaski Co Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget James and Tanya Mahood Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $69,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $57,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOne Tree Planted Inc: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPartners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friendship Bridge: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFood Lifeline: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifespan Research Institution: $17,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWestminster University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPopulation Services International: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetScore: $10,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPreble Street: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Women's Health Network: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Land Institute: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Prep Academies: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMississippi Food Network Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetListeners Community Radio of Utah Inc: $6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the St Lawrence Church: $6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWateraid America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrameen Foundation USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack and Missing Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Beginnings: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAction Against Hunger - USA: $3,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Environment Alliance of Utah: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $1,035 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Southern Maine Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 34.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 James and Tanya Mahood Foundation

How much does James and Tanya Mahood Foundation give?
James and Tanya Mahood Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $128,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does James and Tanya Mahood Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (28%), Food & Nutrition (20%), Environment (11%).
Who are James and Tanya Mahood Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($69k), Feeding America ($58k), One Tree Planted Inc ($28k).
Does James and Tanya Mahood Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does James and Tanya Mahood 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 James and Tanya Mahood Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Ge Aerospace Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is James and Tanya Mahood Foundation based?
James and Tanya Mahood Foundation is based in ME.

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 68 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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