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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWellesley College5× · 2019–2023 · $550k · revenue +36%
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC3× · 2019–2023 · $120k · revenue +192%- SFSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AIASPEN INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $40k
- UIUS INSTITUTE OF PEACEone grant, 2019 · $10k
- FIFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
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…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VACLAV HAVEL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TRUMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST INVESTMENT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
- Who funds HERBIE HANCOCK INSTITUTE OF JAZZ ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMACY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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.
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.
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