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Maak Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$372k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$759kSocial Science$170kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$78kInternational$75kHuman Services$40kCivil Rights$35kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $363,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $372,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $270k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$200,000
HARRY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$70,000
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS$30,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$10,000
MERCERSBURG ACADEMY$3,000
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
CHILDRENS DEFENSE FUND$3,000
ST. JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL$3,000
HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ$3,000
CHRIST CHURCH ASPEN$300
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 24 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$65k

Still filing today

67%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsSocial ScienceOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +36%
  • THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +192%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AI
    ASPEN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • UI
    US INSTITUTE OF PEACE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • FI
    FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Defiant Requiem Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,544

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Wellesley College — $550,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $30,000 · Education+3 more — $28,000 · EducationHARRY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $70,000 · OtherHARRY TRUMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUN…ASPEN INSTITUTE — $40,000 · OtherASPEN INSTITUTEMCLEAN SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherMCLEAN SCHOOLPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $20,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODMUSICORPS — $20,000 · OtherMUSICORPSST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $18,000 · OtherFORD'S THEATER — $15,000 · OtherMERCERSBURG ACADEMY — $13,000 · OtherCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESSCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TRUMAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE TRUMAN FOUNDAT…MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · OtherMIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIA…+7 more — $43,300 · Other+7 moreTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $120,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN …BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY — $15,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $12,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $12,000 · InternationalTHE VACLAV HAVEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC — $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Defiant Requiem Foundation — $20,000 · Arts & CultureHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $18,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$608,000Other$344,300Social Science$120,000Health$100,000International$69,000Human Services$46,000Arts & Culture$38,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWellesley College — $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VACLAV HAVEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TRUMAN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defiant Requiem Foundation — $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ — $18,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC — $6,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Maak Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Maak Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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