· Private foundation
John F Maher Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE-NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| GREENWICH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ASPCA | $5,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $5,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC | $2,500 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS | $1,000 |
| FAULKNER'S LIGHT BRIGADE | $1,000 |
| GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $1,000 |
| FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +56%
- GHGREENWICH HOSPITAL8× · 2018–2025 · $81k · revenue +49%
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $70k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TGThe Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Incone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -11%
- CSCONNECTICUT STATE POLICE UNION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100 · revenue +55%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide medical care in the westerly, rhode island community and surrounding towns.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 27 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 YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds The Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STATE POLICE UNION 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 David W Knapp Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 John F Maher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John F Maher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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